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"O Fiend, whose talisman was that fatal symbol, wouldst thou leave nothing, whether in youth or age, for this poor sinner to revere?-such loss of faith is ever one of the saddest results of sin."
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"Sin compels man to do those things that are not pleasing to God."
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"Some people have the license to sin: Soldiers, to kill; politicians, writers, priests, businessmen, married man and women, to lie; and married couples to have sex."
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"God is so omnipotent yet man so impotent, the Divine masterpiece was not even in creating the universe, but in making sin boring to sinners."
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"Preachers denounce sin as if it was available to everyone."
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"Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad."
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"For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one."
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"One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner."
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"Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself."
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"To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it."
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"It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing."
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"Sunlight is painting."
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"Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not."
Respect
"The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison."
Happiness
"Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them."
Evil
"It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate."
Health
"Time flies over us, but leaves it shadow behind."
Time
"Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it."
Happiness
"A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world."
World
"The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash."
Friendship
"The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits."
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