"We do ourselves wrong, and too meanly estimate the holiness above us, when we deem that any act or enjoyment good in itself, is not good to do religiously."
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"The sin forgiven by Christ in HeavenBy man is cursed alway."
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"But he who never sins can little boast Compared to him who goes and sins no more!"
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"to a Southerner it is faux pas, not sins, that matter in this world."
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"They all do the same things. They may think their sins are original, but for the most part they are petty and repetitive."
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"So the day became one of waiting, which was, he knew, a sin: moments were to be experienced; waiting was a sin against both the time that was still to come and the moments one was currently disregarding."
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"No one has leave to sin."
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"Everyone has his besetting sin."
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"No elaboration of physical or moral accomplishment can atone for the sin of parasitism."
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"The conversion of Paul was no conversion at all; it was Paul who converted the religion that has raised one man above sin and death."
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"When thou dost tell another's jest, therein Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need; Pick out of tales the mirth, but not the sin."
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"Poverty is no sinne. [Poverty is no sin.]"
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"How often we sin, how much we deceive, and all for what?... All will end in death, all!"
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"My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time."
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"As we sin, so do we suffer"
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"Sins may be forgiven. Crimes require punishment."
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"The High Septon once told me that as we sin, so do we suffer."
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"Life is a slate where all our sins are written; from time to time we rub the sponge of repentance over it so we can begin sinning again."
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"You can't win with sin."
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"The closer I get to God, the blacker the little sins appear"
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