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Law can discover sin, but not remove,
Save by those shadowy expiations weak.
Law can discover sin, but not remove,
Save by those shadowy expiations weak.
It's sin and not poverty that makes men miserable.
It's sin and not poverty that makes men miserable.
You can't judge a person with one sin he has commited.
You can't judge a person with one sin he has commited.
Nor custom, nor example, nor cast numbers
Of such as do offend, make less the sin.
Nor custom, nor example, nor cast numbers
Of such as do offend, make less the sin.
A sin confessed is half forgiven.
A sin confessed is half forgiven.
Confess your sins to the Lord, and you will be forgiven; confess them to men, and you will be laughed read more
Confess your sins to the Lord, and you will be forgiven; confess them to men, and you will be laughed at.
If Jupiter hurled his thunderbolt as often as men sinned, he
would soon be out of thunderbolts.
[Lat., read more
If Jupiter hurled his thunderbolt as often as men sinned, he
would soon be out of thunderbolts.
[Lat., Si quoties homines peccant sua fulmina mittat
Jupiter, exiguo tempore inermis erit.]
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!
