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All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.
All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.
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.]
Commit a sin twice and it will not seem a crime.
Commit a sin twice and it will not seem a crime.
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.
Young Timothy
Learnt sin to fly.
Young Timothy
Learnt sin to fly.
I couldn't live in peace if I put the shadow of a wilful sin
between myself and God.
I couldn't live in peace if I put the shadow of a wilful sin
between myself and God.
Commit the oldest sins the newest kind of ways
Commit the oldest sins the newest kind of ways
Compound for sins they are inclin'd to,
By damning those they have no mind to.
Compound for sins they are inclin'd to,
By damning those they have no mind to.
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall
