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Simone Weil
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| "All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction
is what is called damnation." | |
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Wystan Hugh Auden
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| "Can anyone walk through water without wetting his feet? The
companions replied, "No;" Muhammad said, "Such is the condition of those
of the world; they are not safe from sins."" | |
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Prophet Muhammad
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| "Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your
sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red
like crimson, they shall be as wool. If ye be willing and obedient, ye
shall eat the good of the land: But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be
devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it." | |
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The Bible
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| "Commit The oldest sins, the newest kind of ways." | |
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William Shakespeare
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| "Compound for sins they are inclined to, By damning those they have
no mind to." | |
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Samuel Butler
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| "Every sin is the result of a collaboration." | |
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Stephen Crane
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| "Gambling, eating meat, wine-bibbing, adultery, hunting, thieving,
debauchery ? these seven things in this world lead to the hells." | |
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Unknown
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| "God had one Son on earth without sin, but never one without
suffering." | |
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Saint Augustine of Hippo
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| "He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it may be a saint;
that boasteth of it is a devil." | |
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Thomas Fuller
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| "No man is free who is a slave to the flesh." | |
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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| "One who cares is one who listens." | |
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J.Richard Clarke
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| "Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing
entirely straight can be carved." | |
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Immanuel Kant
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| "Pleasure"s a sin, and sometimes sin"s a pleasure." | |
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Lord George Gordon Byron
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| "Reacting to evangelists" fondness for quoting Isaiah 1:18, "Though
your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow...." All my sins
are grey." | |
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Sir William Temple
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| "Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin." | |
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Anatole France
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| "Sin is not harmful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden
because it is harmful." | |
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Benjamin Franklin
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| "That which we call sin in others is experiment for us." | |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| "The seven deadly sins...Food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes,
respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from
man"s neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are
lifted." | |
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George Bernard Shaw
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| "The sin ye do by two and two ye must pay for one by one." | |
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Rudyard Kipling
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| "What other dungeon is so dark as one?s own heart! What jailor so
inexorable as one?s self!" | |
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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