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It ain't sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.
It ain't sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.
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.
You can't judge a person with one sin he has commited.
You can't judge a person with one sin he has commited.
He who has it in his power to commit sin, is less inclined to do
so. The very idea read more
He who has it in his power to commit sin, is less inclined to do
so. The very idea of being able, weakens the desire.
[Lat., Cui peccare licet peccat minus. Ipsa potestas
Semina nequitiae languidiora facit.]
So many laws argues so many sins.
So many laws argues so many sins.
I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What read more
I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.
Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it is hurtful
Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it is hurtful
Commit a sin twice and it will not seem a crime.
Commit a sin twice and it will not seem a crime.
Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, read more
Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves.