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“So many laws argues so many sins.”
John Milton Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. XII, l. 283)
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“Law can discover sin, but not remove,
Save by those shadowy expiations weak.”
John Milton Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. XII, l. 290)
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“But the trail of the serpent is over them all.”
Thomas Moore Quotes Source: Lalla Rookh--Paradise and the Peri (l. 206)
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“In Adam's fall--
We sinned all.”
Thomas Moore Quotes Source: Lalla Rookh--Paradise and the Peri (l. 206)
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“Young Timothy
Learnt sin to fly.”
Thomas Moore Quotes Source: Lalla Rookh--Paradise and the Peri (l. 206)
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“Indulgent gods, grant me to sin once with impunity. That is
sufficient. Let a second offence bear its punishment.
[Lat., Di faciles, peccasse semel concedite tuto:
Id satis est. Peonam culpa secunda ferat.]”
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) Quotes Source: Amorum (bk. II, 14, 43)
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“He who has it in his power to commit sin, is less inclined to do
so. The very idea of being able, weakens the desire.
[Lat., Cui peccare licet peccat minus. Ipsa potestas
Semina nequitiae languidiora facit.]”
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) Quotes Source: Amorum (III, 4, 9)
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“If Jupiter hurled his thunderbolt as often as men sinned, he
would soon be out of thunderbolts.
[Lat., Si quoties homines peccant sua fulmina mittat
Jupiter, exiguo tempore inermis erit.]”
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) Quotes Source: Tristium (II, 33)
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“It is a sin for a plebian to grumble in public.
[Lat., Palam mutire plebeio piaculum est.]”
Phaedrus (Thrace of Macedonia) Quotes Source: Fables (III, Epilogue, 34)
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“How shall I lose the sin yet keep the sense,
And love th' offender, yet detest the offence?”
Alexander Pope Quotes Source: Eloise to Abelard (l. 191)
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“. . . it is the very nature of sin to prevent man from meditating on spiritual things. . .”
Mary Martha Sherwood Quotes |
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“All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.”
W. H. Auden Quotes |
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“Commit a sin twice and it will not seem a crime.”
Jewish Proverb Quotes |
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“Sin in this country has been always said to be rather calculating than impulsive.”
Frank Moore Colby Quotes |
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“Every sin brings its punishment with it.”
Romanian Proverb Quotes |
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“Sin is whatever obscures the soul.”
Andre Gide Quotes |
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“Every sin is the result of collaboration.”
Stephen Crane Quotes |
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“Had I not sinned what would there be for you to pardon. My fate has given you the opportunity for mercy.”
Ovid Quotes |
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“Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.”
Hannah More Quotes |
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“If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be!”
Cesare Pavese Quotes |
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“Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves.”
Anne Baxter Quotes |
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“The sinning is the best part of repentance.”
Arabian Proverb Quotes |
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“A sin confessed is half forgiven.”
French Proverb Quotes |
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“It ain't sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.”
Mae West Quotes |
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“Sins become more subtle as you grow older: you commit sins of despair rather than lust.”
Piers Paul Read Quotes |
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