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Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins.
Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins.
Indulgent gods, grant me to sin once with impunity. That is
sufficient. Let a second offence bear its punishment.
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Indulgent gods, grant me to sin once with impunity. That is
sufficient. Let a second offence bear its punishment.
[Lat., Di faciles, peccasse semel concedite tuto:
Id satis est. Peonam culpa secunda ferat.]
He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is read more
He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.
A sin confessed is half forgiven.
A sin confessed is half forgiven.
If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it read more
If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be!
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall
And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as
his eyes unto heaven, but smote read more
And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as
his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be
merciful to me a sinner.
Her rash hand in evil hour
Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, she eat;
Earth felt read more
Her rash hand in evil hour
Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, she eat;
Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat
Sighing through all her works gave signs of woe
That all was lost.
