Carolyn Wells Quotes
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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.
R. Lee Ermey
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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.
Nate Parker
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Patriots don't let their nation default.
Gary Ackerman
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The heaviest burden that one has to bear in this life is the burden of sin.
Harold B. Lee
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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.
Angus Wilson
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What is it that renders death terrible? Sin. We must therefore fear sin, not death.
Alphonsus Liguori
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It is, therefore, not proper for God thus to pass over sin unpunished.
Anselm of Canterbury
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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.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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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.
Charles Hodge
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A man does not necessarily sin who does that which our reason and our conscience condemn.
J. G. Holland
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It is a sin to be silent when it is your duty to protest.
Abraham Lincoln
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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?
William Cowper