Quotes 161 till 180 of 189.
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Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the morning and Shame sits with us at night.
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Thus, in his belly, can he change a sin,
Lust it comes out, that gluttony went in.The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio CXVIII, On Gut, lines 5-6. -
To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
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To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.
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To say of shame - what is it? Of virtue - we can miss it; Of sin-we can kiss it, And it's no longer sin.
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To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
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To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.
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Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.
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True Civilization does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of the traces of original sin.
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Using adverbs is a mortal sin.
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Vainglory, however, no matter how much medieval Christianity insisted it was a sin, is a motor of mankind, no more eradicable than sex. As long as combat was desirable as the source of honor and glory, the knight had no wish to share it with the commoner, even for the sake of success.
A Distant Mirror -
We all have the same problem as human beings. And it's something that we are born with, and we just see it manifest in different ways. And in this situation, it's racial. It's brutality. It's people breaking the law. It's the smoke, but the underlying fire is something that we all have to deal with, and that's our sin.
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We are commanded to love God with all our minds, as well as with all our hearts, and we commit a great sin if we forbid or prevent that cultivation of the mind in others which would enable them to perform this duty.
Angelina Grimké
American activists and female advocates of abolition and women's rights (1805 - 1879) -
We condemn a sin before we have even tried it.
Meditations in Wall Street (1940) p. 134 -
What it comes down to is this: the grocer, the butcher, the baker, the merchant, the landlord, the druggist, the liquor dealer, the policeman, the doctor, the city father and the politician - these are the people who make money out of prostitution, these are the real reapers of the wages of sin.
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When it comes to finances, remember that there are no withholding taxes on the wages of sin.
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When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith.
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Who are you to condemn another's sin? He who condemns sin becomes part of it, espouses it.
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Who hath sorrow? Who hath woe? They who do not answer no; They whose feet to sin incline While they tarry at the wine.
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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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