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It's sin and not poverty that makes men miserable.
-Scottish Proverb
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Commit a sin twice and it will not seem a crime.
-Anon.
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The sinning is the best part of repentance.
-Arabic Proverb
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The just man may sin with an open chest of gold before him.
-Italian Proverb
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Make peace with man and war with your sins.
-Proverb
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A sin confessed is half forgiven.
-Proverb
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All sins cast long shadows.
-Proverb
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All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.
-W. H. Auden
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True Civilization does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of the traces of original sin.
-Charles Baudelaire
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Who are you to condemn another's sin? He who condemns sin becomes part of it, espouses it.
-Georges Bernanos
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But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door. It desires to have you, but you must master it. Genesis 4:7
-Bible
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Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a blame to any people.
-Bible
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For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. Romans 3:23
-Bible
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He that is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone.
-Bible
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But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against the Lord, and be sure your sin will find you out. Numbers 32:23
-Bible
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There is a hearty Puritanism in the view of human nature which pervades the instrument of 1787. It is the work of men who believed in original sin, and were resolved to leave open for transgressors no door which they could possibly shut.
-James Bryce
On the U.S. Constitution, The American Commonwealth, vol. 1, pt. 1, ch. 26, 1893
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One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner.
-John Bunyan
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SIN: Self-Inflicted Nonsense
-Eric Butterworth
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If there is sin against life, it consists in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
-Albert Camus
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There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing.
-Roger Caras
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Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, had some generous act that redeems them, at least a little, from their sins.
-Orson Scott Card
Speaker For The Dead 1986
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The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit.
-Thomas Carlyle
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A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.
-Miguel de Cervantes
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Sin in this country has been always said to be rather calculating than impulsive.
-Frank Moore Colby
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Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.
-Cyril Connolly
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Books about Sin
