Carolyn Wells Quotes
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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
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I'd love sloth. I wish sloth would come home and visit me once in a while. I don't consider laziness a sin at all.
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We want enough people adopting Bitcoin for a robust infrastructure. It's an act of patriotism. It gives the country a robust parallel system.
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Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.
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Some guy refuses to fight and we call that the sin, but he's standing up for what he believes in and that seems pretty damned American to me.
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A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
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It's my firm conviction that when Uncle Sam calls, by God we go, and we do the best that we can.
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I think patriotism is all about wanting to see America better, wanting to see those are oppressed do better and get treated better.
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Patriots don't let their nation default.
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The heaviest burden that one has to bear in this life is the burden of sin.
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All the seven deadly sins are self destroying, morbid appetites, but in their early stages at least, lust and gluttony, averice and sloth know some gratification, while anger and pride have power, even though that power eventually destroys itself. Envy is impotent, numbed with fear, never ceasing in its appetite, and it knows no gratification, but endless self torment. It has the ugliness of a trapped rat, which gnaws its own foot in an effort to escape.
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What is it that renders death terrible? Sin. We must therefore fear sin, not death.
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It is, therefore, not proper for God thus to pass over sin unpunished.
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Love is as bitter as the dregs of sin, As sweet as clover-honey in its cell; Love is the password whereby souls get in To Heaven--the gate that leads, sometimes, to Hell.
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He [man] knows that when he is not what he ought to be; when he does what he ought not to do; or omits what he ought to do, he is chargeable with sin.
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A man does not necessarily sin who does that which our reason and our conscience condemn.
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It is a sin to be silent when it is your duty to protest.
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And hast thou sworn on every slight pretence, Till perjuries are common as bad pence, While thousands, careless of the damning sin, Kiss the book's outside, who ne'er look'd within?
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A potlatch is similar to a court case in that both are prohibitively expensive; both involve lengthy speeches and the vigorous examination and debate of the actions, rights and legal responsibilities of the participants. One has food, singing and spiritual rites; the other, not so much.
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You know, what if everybody's wrong in life? And so you have to live your life yourself.
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It's the moms who are overaggressive. A lot of times their daughters are very sweet and cordial, and the moms tend to grab you and scream and want to kiss you. You gotta watch out for the moms.
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Someone who seeks to travel the path of Allah should begin with a sound repentance from all his sins.
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A real diplomat is one who can cut his neighbor's throat without having his neighbor notice it.
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Patriotism covers a multitude of sins.
