Martin Luther
Theologian
"Those who lapse from the Gospel to the Law are no better off than those who lapse from grace to idolatry."
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Lapses
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Jose Saramago
Writer
"But truths need to be repeated many times so that they don't, poor things, lapse into oblivion."
Anton Chekhov
Playwright, Short Story Writer
"No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith."
Aristotle
Philosopher
"Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time."
Seneca the Younger
Philosopher, Statesman
"No one can long hide behind a mask; the pretense soon lapses into the true character."
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". . . women were brought up to have only one set of manners. A woman was either a lady or she wasn't, and we all know what the latter meant. Not even momentary lapses were allowed; there is no female equivalent of the boys-will-be-boys concept."
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"Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility."
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"As for literature, thefts cannot harm it, while the lapse of ages augments its value"
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"The metaphysical insanities of Athanasius, of Loyola, and of Calvin, are, to my understanding, mere lapses into polytheism, differing from paganism only by being more unintelligible."
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"It is one of my faults, that though my tongue is sometimes prompt enough at an answer, there are times when it sadly fails me in framing an excuse; and always the lapse occurs at some crisis, when a facile word or plausible pretext is specially wanted to get me out of painful embarrassment."
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"...a genuine work of art, can never be false, nor can it be discredited through the lapse of time, for it does not present an opinion but the thing itself."
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"It is almost startling to hear this warning of departed time sounding among the tombs, and telling the lapse of the hour, which, like a billow, has rolled us onward towards the grave."
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