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“Lawyers are like priests; people come to them and disburden themselves of their troubles, and get consolation, if they pay well for it; but there is one point in which they don't treat them like priests; they don't confess all their sins; they suppress them, and often get themselves and their counsel into a scrape by it, that's a fact.”

People Ifs Wells Facts Sin Pay Trouble Treats Lawyer Priests Consolation

Author:Thomas Chandler Haliburton

“I don't remember ever being see-saw, when I'd made my mind up that a thing was wrong. It takes the taste out o' my mouth for things, when I know I should have a heavy conscience after 'em. I've seen pretty clear, ever since I could cast up a sum, as you can never do what's wrong without breeding sin and trouble more than you can ever see. It's like a bit o' bad workmanship--you never see th' end o' the mischief it'll do. And it's a poor look-out to come into the world to make your fellow creatures worse off instead o' better.”

Knows World Should Mind Looks Made Ends Remember Bits Sin Poor Clear Saws Trouble Taste Creatures Mouths Conscience Should Have Fellows Casts Heavy Ems Mischief Breeding Workmanship

Book:Works

Source: Works

“I do not understand how a man can be a true believer, in whom sin is not the greatest burden, sorrow and trouble.”

Men Sin Trouble Sorrow Burden Believer True Believer

Author:John Owen

“Do not ... hope wholly to reason away your troubles; do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away. Fix your thoughts upon your business, fill your intervals with company, and sunshine will again break in upon your mind.”

Mind Reason Death Dies Hope Wish Sin Attention Company Break Trouble Sunshine Intervals

Book:The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume II: 1773-1776

Source: The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume II: 1773-1776

“Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.”

Men Mind Wells Sin Trouble Innocence Deceiving

Author:Seneca the Younger

“You must be made miserable before you can know true Christian joy. Indeed the real trouble with the miserable Christian is that he has never been truly made miserable because of conviction of sin. He has by-passed the essential preliminary to joy, he has been assuming something that he has no right to assume.”

Knows Has Beens Made Real Christian Joy Sin Trouble Essentials Assuming Conviction Miserable

Book:Reflections: A Treasury of Daily Readings

Source: Reflections: A Treasury of Daily Readings

“Sin has gotten men into more trouble than science can get him out of.”

Men Sin Trouble

Author:Vance Havner