Expiation Quotes
12 quotes by 12 authors
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Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the…
— William James
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They do not know what they say. If it came to a conflict of arms, the war will last at least four years. Northern politicians…
— Robert E. Lee
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Men, your primary responsibility in your home, after your wife, is you to disciple your own children. And if you don't do it, you're in…
— Paul Washer
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But this Christ or Redeemer took not upon him the nature of angels, but the seed of Abraham, that is, human nature, that in the…
— Adam Clarke
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What I am thinking and doing day by day is resistlessly shaping my future - a future in which there is no expiation except through…
— Horatio Dresser
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Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience; the latter to a soul changed for the better.
— Joseph Joubert
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I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss, and, in their struggles to be truly free, in their triumphs and…
— Charles Dickens
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We must have done something very wicked before we were born, or else we must be going to be very happy indeed when we are…
— Alexandre Dumas-fils
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Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much as they would pay a fine in expiation of…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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...vicinity to the sea is desirable, because it is easier to do nothing by the sea than anywhere else, and because bathing and basking on…
— Edward Frederic Benson
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The modern view of criminal justice, broadly, is that public concern with morality or expediency decrees expiation for the violation of a norm; this concern…
— Max Weber
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How can justice be attained when, in the expiation of an old wrong, another wrong is to be committed? No reasonable creature would conceive of…
— Bertha von Suttner
Who Wrote These Expiation Quotes
12 authors contributed a total of 12 Expiation Quotes as follows: