Edward Thomson Quotes

The longer men sin, the more easily they can; for every act of transgression weakens conscience, stupefies intellect, hardens hearts, adds force to bad habits, and takes force from good example. And, surely, there is nothing in such associations; as wicked affinities will insure to the sinner in the future state, to incline him to repentance.

Edward Thomson

• Hearts
• Conscience
• Habits
• Sinner
• Transgression

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• It is absolutely unacceptable to think that in the last year of the president's term, that he should stop doing his job, and he won't.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Job
  • Think
  • Stop

• 'Fairness' can be an important quality for legislators to consider when they are passing public policies. But it is a subjective standard. And it has no place among judges on a court - whose duty is to dispassionately judge a law's constitutionality.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Important
  • Law
  • Quality

• I know who I am as an artist and I know what my sound is, but I wanted to know what I could do in order to take it to that next level. So the experiences I had last year of moving to California and traveling to places like Rome and Nicaragua where I met a lot of people just had a really big impact in my life.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • Life
  • Moving
  • Artist

• I was very precocious when I was young. I went to college at 16, and I graduated at 20. I wanted to be a writer, but I was more interested in experience than in applying myself intellectually.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Experience
  • College
  • Myself

• We don’t forgive being as we are.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• Clap for the heavy weight champ ME But I couldn't do it all alone WE

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Alone
  • Humble
  • Weight

• Coming just days before the presidential elections, it looks like yet another attempt by the Mugabe regime to obstruct the conduct of the election and the ability of the people of Zimbabwe to choose, freely and fairly, who should lead them.

  

  Jack Straw
  • People
  • Presidential
  • Elections

• Women have become so highly educated... that nothing should surprise us nowadays, except happy marriages.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Women
  • Happy
  • Educated

• People want sex education out of the schools. They believe sex education causes promiscuity. Hey, I took algebra, but I never do math.

  

  Elayne Boosler
  • People
  • Believe
  • Education

• When it became clear that in fact my father was saying, "It will be interesting to see what you want to do when you grow up," I realized that there was no pressure on that front. And I remember huge relief: Hey, I can go and do what I really know I have to do!

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Father

• There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Love
  • Friendship
  • Force

• Don't hold grudges; it's pointless. Jealousy too is a non-cathartic, negative emotion.

  

  John Milton
  • Emotion
  • Negative
  • Non-cathartic

• Fin to pull a nine or pistol little nigga wit mine fuck dem niggas it's on. All y'all fall Bizzy gettin bitches test me bless the floor In any attempt to arrest me stress me lord. Looking at death with…

  

  Bryon Anthony McCane II Bone Thugs-n-Harmony
  • Death
  • Pistol

• All that he has to do is to write and publish a very little book. Its title should be simple -- a few plain words -- My Heart Laid Bare. But -- this little book must be true to its title.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Book
  • Write
  • Publish

• It is the distinguishing glory of Christianity not to rest satisfied with superficial appearances, but to rectify the motives, and purify the heart.

  

  William Wilberforce
  • Heart
  • Glory
  • Christianity

• The longer men sin, the more easily they can; for every act of transgression weakens conscience, stupefies intellect, hardens hearts, adds force to bad habits, and takes force from good example. And, surely, there is nothing in such associations; as wicked affinities will insure to the sinner in the future state, to incline him to repentance.

  

  Edward Thomson
  • Hearts
  • Conscience
  • Habits