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Sin Quotes by George Eliot
- I couldn't live in peace if I put the shadow of a willful sin between myself and God.
- No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.
- So deeply inherent is it in this life of ours that men have to suffer for each other's sins, so inevitably diffusive is human suffering,…
- Surely it is not true blessedness to be free of sorrow while there is sorrow and sin in the world. Sorrow is a part of…
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