“ Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime . Not failure, but low aim is crime. ”
- James Russell Lowell- Copy
“ When I am dead I would rather people thought me better than I was instead of worse; but if they think me worse, I cannot help it and, if it matters at all, it will matter more to them than to me. ”
- Samuel Butler- Copy
“ I charge thee, fling away ambition; By that sin fell the angels. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
“ Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin As self-neglecting. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
“ Compound for sins they are inclined to by damning those they have no mind to. ”
- Samuel Butler- Copy
“ I count religion but a childish toy, And hold there is no sin but ignorance. Birds of the air will tell of murders past. I am asham'd to hear such fooleries! ”
- Christopher Marlowe- Copy
“ Slums may well be breeding-grounds of crime, but middle-class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium. ”
- Cyril Connolly- Copy
“ How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence? ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
“ Behold, I was shapened in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me. ”
- Bible- Copy
“ Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
“ Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. ”
- John von Neumann- Copy
“ In selling as in medicine, prescription before diagnosis is malpractice. ”
- Tony Alesandra- Copy
“ One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another. ”
- Juvenal- Copy
“ The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime. ”
- Mignon McLaughlin- Copy
“ The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime. ”
- Max Stirner- Copy
“ How can a young man keep his way pure? By keeping it according to Thy Word. Thy Word I have treasured in my heart, that I may not sin against Thee. ”
- Bible- Copy
“ Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens with the flower of the pleasure that concealed it. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
“ Moreover, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the Lord by ceasing to pray for you, but I will instruct you in the good and right way. ”
- Bible- Copy
“ History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind. ”
- Edward Gibbon- Copy
“ If there is sin against life, it consists? in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. ”
- Albert Camus- Copy
“ Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at. ”
- Josh Billings- Copy
“ The gods Grow angry with your patience. 'Tis their care, And must be yours, that guilty men escape not: As crimes do grow, justice should rouse itself. ”
- Ben Jonson- Copy
“ The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot. ”
- Vittorio Alfieri- Copy
“ Sofas 'twas half a sin to sit upon, So costly were they; carpets, every stitch Of workmanship so rare, they make you wish You could glide o'er them like a golden fish. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
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