"We have all our secret sins; and if we knew ourselves we should not judge each other harshly."
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"I couldn't live in peace if I put the shadow of a willful sin between myself and God."
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"Every sin brings its punishment with it."
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"Original sin is the only doctrine that's been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history."
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"I still think sincere pessimism the unpardonable sin."
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"Theologians consider that it was the sin of pride, the sinful thought conceived in an instant: non serviam: I will not serve. That instant was his [Lucifer's] ruin."
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"When the reptile is attacked at one mouth of his burrow, he shows himself at another."
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"Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?"
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"One is most dishonest to one's god: he is not allowed to sin."
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"In sinning, each man sins against all, and each man is at least partly guilt for another's sin. There is no isolated sin."
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"But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns."
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"Sin writes histories, goodness is silent. [Ger., Das Uebel macht eine Geschichte und das Gute keine.]"
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"Then love is sin, and let me sinful be."
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"Sara could commit adultery at one end and weep for her sins at the other, and enjoy both operations at once."
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"We must guard against allowing anger to drag us into sin."
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"Hypocrisy is not generally a social sin, but a virtue."
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"Absolute ugliness is admitted as rarely as perfect beauty; but degrees of it more or less distinct are associated with whatever has the nature of death and sin, just as beauty is associated with what has the nature of virtue and of life."
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"In forming an estimate of sins, we are often imposed upon by imagining that the more hidden the less heinous they are."
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"I've relaxed my feelings about other companies performing my works. I have never in principle been against my ballets being danced by other companies. Rather, it is that we lack the time, space and money to insure that they are done well. To me, the only sin is mediocrity."
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"I will, then, always love sin and the world until I truly sense that Christ is better."
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