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Source: An exposition of all the books of the Old and New Testaments: ...: Wherein each chapter is summed up in its contents: the sacred text inserted at large in distinct paragraphs ... largely illustrated with practical remarks and observations

“Would a writer know how to behave himself with relation td posterity? Let him consider in old books what he finds that he is glad to know, and what omissions he most laments.”

Knows Book Know How Relation Glad Behave Posterity Lament Authorship Omission Old Books

Author:Jonathan Swift

“Some voluntary castaways there will always be, whom no fostering kindness and no parental care can preserve from self-destruction; but if any are lost for want of care and culture, there is a sin of omission in the society to which they belong.”

Ifs Want Self Care Culture Lost Sin Kindness Destruction Preserves Self Destruction Parental Omission Fostering Castaway

Book:Colloquies on Society: Easyread Comfort Edition

Source: Colloquies on Society: Easyread Comfort Edition

“Self-conceit is a weighty quality, and will sometimes bring down the scale when there is nothing else in it. It magnifies a fault beyond proportion, and swells every omission into an outrage.”

Self Sometimes Quality Faults Scales Proportion Conceit Outrage Omission

Author:Jeremy Collier

“Can anybody tell me why reporters, in making mention of lady speakers, always consider it to be necessary to report, fully and firstly, the dresses worn by them? When John Jones or Senator Rouser frees his mind in public, we are left in painful ignorance of the color and fit of his pants, coat, necktie and vest - and worse still, the shape of his boots. This seems to me a great omission.”

Mind Stills Seems Left Ignorance Color Politician Fit Shapes Dresses Painful Reports Pants Boots Speakers Worn Reporters Senators Coats Omission Vests Neckties

Book:Ginger-Snaps

Source: Ginger-Snaps

“Sins of commission are far more productive of happiness than the sins of omission.”

Sin Productive Omission

Book:The Spinster Book

Source: The Spinster Book

“Spin' is a polite word for deception. Spinners mislead by means that range from subtle omissions to outright lies. Spin paints a false picture of reality by bending facts, mischaracterizing the words of others, ignoring or denying crucial evidence, or just 'spinning a yarn' - by making things up.”

Mean Facts Reality Lying Evidence Paint Deception Range Subtle Crucial Polite Spinning Mislead Bending Omission Yarn Spinner

Book:unSpun: Finding Facts in a World of Disinformation

Source: unSpun: Finding Facts in a World of Disinformation

“I am well aware that the path of the biographer is beset with pitfalls, and that, for him, suppressio veri is almost necessarily suggestio falsi - the least omission may distort the whole picture.”

Wells May Whole Path Pitfalls Omission Biographers Whole Picture

Author:Stuart Dodgson Collingwood

“In reference works, as in sin, omission is as bad as willful misbehavior.”

Sin Nonfiction Omission

Author:Elizabeth McCracken

“The omission of an expected conjunction is called an asyndeton. Caesar is supposed to have said about Gaul: I came, I saw, I conquered. Lincoln concluded the Gettysburg Address, That government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.Caesar seems to have omitted his conjunction to speed things up; he is emphasizing how quickly the conquest of a place follows from its being sighted by a great and ambitious general. Lincoln's omission is more subtle”

People Said Seems Government Earth Language Saws Speed Expected Addresses Subtle Ambitious Conquest Omission Conjunctions Gettysburg Gettysburg Address

Book:Figures of Speech: 60 Ways To Turn A Phrase

Source: Figures of Speech: 60 Ways To Turn A Phrase

“Ingratitude is the frost that nips the flower even as it opens, that shrivels the generous apple on the branch, that freezes the fountain in mid-flow and numbs the hand, even in the very act of giving. It is a sin of silence, absence and omission, as winter's sin is a lack of light; a sin against charity, which otherwise warms the heart and, in the truest sense, makes the world turn.”

World Giving Heart Hands Light Turns Sin Silence Flower Flow Charity Winter Absence Generous Apples Branches Fountain Freeze Truest Frost Ingratitude Omission

Author:Ann Wroe

“Omission is a sin only if, in the process of deceiving, you forget the truth. Lying is a sin only if, in the process, the lie becomes the only truth.”

Ifs Lying Process Sin Forget Deceiving Omission

Book:Girl Talk

Source: Girl Talk

“If we remembered everything, we should on most occasions be as ill off as if we remembered nothing. It would take us as long to recall a space of time as it took the original time to elapse, and we should never get ahead with our thinking. All recollected times undergo, accordingly, what M. Ribot calls foreshortening; and this foreshortening is due to the omission of an enormous number of facts which filled them.”

Ifs Thinking Should Long Facts Space Numbers Originals Filled Ill Dues Enormous Occasions Remembered Recalls Forgetfulness Get Ahead Omission

Author:William James

“The adolescent frequently supposes that she is breaking out of the confines of her mundane, schoolgirl existence simply in order to break rules and defy authority. . . . She rids herself of the "oughts" and "musts" that convert every minor infraction into a sin of omission or commission. It certainly does not occur to her or to her family that by questioning the moral standards she erected as a child she is taking the first steps in her journey toward a firmer, more reasonable, less harsh, more ethical form of conscience.”

Firsts Children Doe Form Order Sin Existence Moral Steps Break Journey Authority Standards Conscience Reasonable Ethical First Steps Questioning Minors Adolescence Harsh Mundane Omission

Author:Louise J. Kaplan

“There is a terrible blindness in the love that wants only to accommodate. It's not only to do with omissions and half-truths. It implants a lack of being in the speaker and robs the self of an identity without which it is impossible for one to grow close to another.”

Want Self Grows Half Impossible Identity Terrible Speakers Blindness Accommodate Omission Implants Half Truth

Author:Alexander Theroux

“It is the sin of omission, the second kind of sin, That lays eggs under your skin.”

Kind Sin Skins Lays Eggs Omission

Book:The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash

Source: The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash

“When a miser contents himself with giving nothing, and saving what he has got, and is in other respects guilty of no injustice, he is, perhaps, of all bad men the least injurious to society; the evil he does is properly nothing more than the omission of the good he might do. If, of all the vices, avarice is the most generally detested, it is the effect of an avidity common to all men; it is because men hate those from whom they can expect nothing. The greedy misers rail at sordid misers.”

Ifs Men Giving Doe Might Hate Evil Common Effects Injustice Vices Guilty Saving Greedy Avarice Rail Bad Man Misers Omission Expect Nothing

Author:Claude Adrien Helvetius

“The truth and regularity of a character is not, in justice, to be looked upon as broken, from any one single act or omission which may seem a contradiction to it:Mthe best of men appear sometimes to be strange compounds of contradictory qualities.”

Men May Sometimes Character Seems Justice Quality Strange Broken Contradiction Contradictory Compounds Regularity Omission Best Of Me

Author:Laurence Sterne

“You always end up with too much, so it's good to be part of the conversation about not just what you can omit, but how you are going to do the grammar of the omission, how you make things continue to work when there's something missing. It's your last chance to rewrite.”

Ends Lasts Chance Too Much Missing Conversation Grammar Omission Last Chance Missing It

Author:Tom Stoppard

“I do not like [in the new Federal Constitution] the omission of a Bill of Rights providing clearly and without the aid of sophisms for... protection against standing armies”

Rights Standing Constitution Army Bills Protection Aids Providing Bill Of Rights Omission

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“I will now add what I do not like. First, the omission of a bill of rights providing clearly and without the aid of sophisms for freedom of religion, freedom of the press, protection against standing armies, restriction against monopolies, the eternal and unremitting force of the habeas corpus laws, and trials by jury in all matters of fact triable by the laws of the land and not by the law of nations.”

Source: The portable Thomas Jefferson

“Some consider the puzzles that are created by their omissions as spicy challenges, without which their texts would be boring; others shun clarity lest their work is considered trivial.”

Would Be Challenges Boring Clarity Puzzles Omission Spicy

Author:Edsger Dijkstra

“Repentance is powerful spiritual medicine. There are few spiritual ills it will not cure. Each sin we leave behind through our faith in the living Christ-both those of commission and those of omission-opens spiritual doors. As we feel the potency of repentance, we better understand why Christ admonished the early missionaries of this dispensation to "say nothing but repentance unto this generation."”

Feels Spiritual Christ Sin Powerful Behinds Generations Doors Medicine Cures Repentance This Generation Omission Potency

Author:Neil L. Andersen

“States kill when they apply the death penalty, when they send their people to war, or when they carry out extra-judicial or summary executions. They can also kill by omission, when they fail to guarantee to their people access to the bare essentials for life.”

People War States Failing Essentials Access Extras Guarantees Execution Penalties Death Penalty Judicial Omission Summary

Author:Pope Francis

“Since those don’t hit financial reports, the opportunities you had but didn’t accept, most people don’t bother thinking about them very much. At least that is a mistake we don’t make. We rub our own noses in our mistakes in blowing opportunities, as we just did.”

People Pay Attention Mistake Financial Statements Pay Attention Noses Omission Financial Statements

Author:Charlie Munger

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