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In sinning, each man sins against all, and each man is at least partly guilt for another's sin. There is no isolated sin.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Where do murderers go, man! Who's to doom, when the judge himself is dragged to the bar?
- Herman Melville
every time you make a decision to be less than what God wants for you, you're denying yourself some of God's blessings. It's up to you. You can live a life with God's blessings, or just exist with all the consequences of choosing wrong.
- Terri Blackstock
Feel-good answers are not enough. Twice, the book of Proverbs tells us, "There is a way that seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death."
- Terry James
My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground upon which I stand.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
So we must decide that anyone may entertain contrary opinions about the notions, if he does not mean to uphold anything at variance with faith. If, however, anyone should entertain a false opinion of the notions, knowing or thinking that consequences against the faith would follow, he would lapse into heresy.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Freedom will bite back more fiercely when suspended than when she remains undisturbed.
- Cicero
I've seen more trouble come from long engagements than from any other forms of human folly.
- Virginia Woolf
I wear the chain I forged in life....I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.
- Charles Dickens
Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.
- Charles Dickens
Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.
- Charles Dickens
They are Man's and they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. This boy is Ignorance and this girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased.
- Charles Dickens