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Source: The Poetical Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Preliminary Dissertations on Each Poem, Notes Critical and Explanatory, an Index to the Subjects of Paradise Lost, and a Verbal Index to All the Poems

“But the people are ungrammatical, untidy, and their sins gaunt and ill-bred.”

People Sin Ill

Book:The Portable Walt Whitman

Source: The Portable Walt Whitman

“T is the will that makes the action good or ill.”

Action Sin Ill

Book:The poetical works of Robert Herrick

Source: The poetical works of Robert Herrick

“When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.”

Dies Loss Sin Grief Pay Regret Thousand One You Love Someone You Love Piercings

Author:Simone de Beauvoir

“However long the horror continued, one must not get to the stage of refusing to think about it. To shrink from direct pain was bad enough, but to shrink from vicarious pain was the ultimate cowardice. And whereas to conceal direct pain was a virtue, to conceal vicarious pain was a sin. Only by feeling it to the utmost, and by expressing it, could the rest of the world help to heal the injury which had caused it. Money, food, clothing, shelter - people could give all these and still it would not be enough; it would not absolve them from paying also, in full, the imponderable tribute of grief.”

Source: A pocketful of pebbles

“It seemed to her sometimes that the most important thing about marriage was not a home or children or a remedy against sin, but simply there being always an eye to catch.”

Children Important Sometimes Home Eye Sin Important Things Remedy

Book:Mrs. Miniver

Source: Mrs. Miniver

“When a house is on fire and you know that there are people in it, it is a sin to straighten pictures in that house. When the world about you is in great danger, works that are in themselves not sinful can be quite wrong.”

People Knows World House Sin Fire Danger

Author:Corrie Ten Boom

“It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.”

Age Sin Jokes Seventies

Author:Golda Meir

“St. Augustine teaches us that there is in each man a Serpent, an Eve, and an Adam. Our senses and natural propensities are the Serpent; the excitable desire is the Eve; and reason is the Adam. Our nature tempts us perpetually; criminal desire is often excited; but sin is not completed till reason consents.”

Men Reason Desire Natural Sin Teach Excited Criminals Senses Temptation Adam Consent Serpent Propensity Augustine

Book:Thoughts of Blaise Pascal

Source: Thoughts of Blaise Pascal

“We are saved from nothing if we are not saved from sin. Little sins are pioneers of hell. The backslider begins with what he foolishly considers trifling with little sins. There are no little sins. There was a time when all the evil that has existed in the world was comprehended in one sinful thought of our first parent; and all the now evil is the numerous and horrid progeny of one little sin.”

Ifs World Firsts Littles Evil Parent Sin Hell Saved Pioneers Trifling Progeny

Author:James Howell

“If there is such a thing as sin in this world, I think it must be shutting oneself up against hope.”

Ifs Thinking World Hope Sin This World Oneself

Author:Gail Godwin

“A companion that feasts the company with and mirth, and leaves out the sin which is usually mixed with them, he is the man; and let me tell you, good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.”

Men Sin Company Virtue He Man Let Me Companion Discourse Mirth Good Company

Author:Izaak Walton

“Tis not, to cry God mercy, or to sit And droop, or to confess that thou hast fail'd: 'Tis to bewail the sins thou didst commit: And not commit those sins thou hast bewail' d. He that bewails and not forsakes them too; Confesses rather what he means to do.”

Mean Sin Failing Cry Mercy Commit Repentance Forsake

Author:Francis Quarles

“Sin is a basilisk whose eyes are full of venom. If the eye of thy soul see her first, it reflects her own poison and kills her; if she see thy soul, unseen, or seen too late, with her poison, she kills thee: since therefore thou canst not escape thy sin, let not thy sin escape thy observation.”

Ifs Firsts Soul Eye Sin Late Observation Thee Poison Too Late Unseen Venom

Author:Francis Quarles

“Greater mischief happens often from folly, meanness, and vanity than from the greater sins of avarice and ambition.”

Happens Sin Greater Ambition Vanity Folly Mischief Avarice Meanness

Author:Edmund Burke

“It doesn't matter that Cathy was what I have called a monster. Perhaps we can't understand Cathy, but on the other hand we are capable of many things in all directions, of great virtues and great sins. And who in his mind has not probed the black water?”

Mind Matter Hands Black Water Sin Virtue Capable Monsters Cathy

Book:East of Eden

Source: East of Eden

“Not only commission makes a sin. A man is guilty of all those sins he hateth not. If I cannot avoid all, yet I will hate all.”

Ifs Men Hate Sin Guilty

Book:Works: Devotional works

Source: Works: Devotional works

“Jealousy ... is an affliction of the spirit which, unlike some sins of the flesh, gives no one any pleasure.”

Giving Spirit Sin Pleasure Flesh Jealousy Affliction Sins Of The Flesh

Book:The Finishing School

Source: The Finishing School

“It is hard living down the tempers we are born with. We all begin well, for in our youth there is nothing we are more intolerant of than our own sins writ large in others and we fight them fiercely in ourselves; but we grow old and we see that these our sins are of all sins the really harmless ones to own, nay that they give a charm to any character, and so our struggle with them dies away.”

Giving Wells Hard Character Dies Fighting Grows Born Sin Struggle Youth Charm Temper Intolerance

Book:GERTRUDE STEIN Ultimate Collection: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Plays, Memoirs & Essays: Three Lives, Tender Buttons, Geography and Plays, Matisse, Picasso and Gertrude Stein, The Making of Americans, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas…

Source: GERTRUDE STEIN Ultimate Collection: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Plays, Memoirs & Essays: Three Lives, Tender Buttons, Geography and Plays, Matisse, Picasso and Gertrude Stein, The Making of Americans, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas…

“If we could make up our minds to spare our friends all details of ill health, of money losses, of domestic annoyances, of altercations, of committee work, of grievances, provocations, and anxieties, we should sin less against the world's good-humor. It may not be given us to add to the treasury of mirth; but there is considerable merit in not robbing it.”