Carolyn Wells Quotes
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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
Samuel Butler
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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
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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.
Patrick M. Byrne
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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.
W. H. Auden
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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.
Iris DeMent
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A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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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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There is no question that what we are seeing - the horrible advance of ISIS - goes back, if you will, to the original sin of the invasion of Iraq.
Valerie Plame
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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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Do not give up your authority and follow blindly the will of others. This way will lead to only delusion.
Gautama Buddha
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Happiness. It comes on unexpectedly. And goes beyond, really, any early morning talk about it.
Raymond Carver
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If somebody ever says something is a mature theme, it's bound to not be. I mean, you shouldn't fall for that. You can make it sound mature, but anything that's about being mature is pretty immature.
Ariel Pink
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Say what men may, it is doctrine that moves the world. He who takes no position will not sway the human intellect.
William Greenough Thayer Shedd
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Patriotism covers a multitude of sins.
Carolyn Wells