Carolyn Wells Quotes

Patriotism covers a multitude of sins.

Carolyn Wells

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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.

  

  Kajol
  • Home
  • Sin
  • Visit

• We want enough people adopting Bitcoin for a robust infrastructure. It's an act of patriotism. It gives the country a robust parallel system.

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
  • People
  • Country
  • Want

• Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Sin
  • Paradise
  • Return

• 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.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • American
  • Guy
  • Pretty

• A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Long
  • Fight
  • Soldier

• 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
  • God
  • Best
  • Uncle

• 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
  • America
  • Better
  • Patriotism

• Patriots don't let their nation default.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • Nation
  • Patriotism
  • Patriots

• The heaviest burden that one has to bear in this life is the burden of sin.

  

  Harold B. Lee
  • Life
  • Sin
  • Burden

• 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
  • Power
  • Fear
  • Effort

• It is, therefore, not proper for God thus to pass over sin unpunished.

  

  Anselm of Canterbury
  • God
  • Sin
  • Unpunished

• 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
  • Soul
  • Heaven
  • Sometimes

• 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
  • Sin
  • Omits
  • Chargeable

• A man does not necessarily sin who does that which our reason and our conscience condemn.

  

  J. G. Holland
  • Men
  • Sin
  • Doe

• It is a sin to be silent when it is your duty to protest.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Sin
  • Silent
  • Protest

• 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
  • Sin
  • Common
  • Kissing

• Dislike what deserves it, but never hate: for that is of the nature of malice; which is almost ever to persons, not things, and is one of the blackest qualities sin begets in the soul.

  

  William Penn
  • Soul
  • Hate
  • Quality

• A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot.

  

  William Randolph Hearst
  • Freedom
  • Politics
  • Jobs

• So are you to my thoughts as food to life, or as sweet seasoned showers are to the ground.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Thoughts
  • Sweet
  • Showers

• It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Human Nature
  • Arguments
  • Predisposition

• We are truth-speakers, we men of Gondor. We boast seldom, and then perform, or die in the attempt. "Not if I found it on the highway would I take it," I said. Even if I were such a man as to desire this thing, and even though I knew not clearly what this thing was when I spoke, still I should take those words as a vow, and be held by them.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Desire
  • Perform
  • Highway

• If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death.

  

  Morgan Freeman
  • Life
  • Live
  • Reality

• I only ever play Vegas one night at a time. It's a hideous, gaudy place; it may not be the end of the world per se, but you can certainly see it from there.

  

  Robin Williams
  • Night
  • Play
  • Vegas

• Patriotism covers a multitude of sins.

  

  Carolyn Wells
  • Sin
  • Patriotism
  • Multitudes