"Men are born to sin…What does matter most,……" — Sharon Kay Penman
"Men are born to sin…What does matter most, is not that we err, it is that we do benefit from our mistakes, that we are capable of sincere repentance, of genuine contrition."
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21 Quotes by Sharon Kay Penman
Sharon Kay Penman has 21 quotes on this site.
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Men kill for many reasons, they steal but for one-greed.
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Forget the threat of Hell's infernal flames. The true torture would condemn a man to wait and wait and wait…
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I’ll admit that my garden now grows hope in lavish profusion, leaving little room for anything else. I suppose it…
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We tend to forget at times that it is the little ones, the children, who do suffer the greatest hurt.…
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…a cynic who was still saddened whenever his jaundiced view of mankind was confirmed...
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I inhale hope with every breath I take.
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…she remembered watching a summer sunset from this very spot. Not so long ago; just a lifetime.
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It was just like him, she thought; with him, a happy ending was always a foregone conclusion. But such was…
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There is nothing worse than an enemy with imagination.
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...A scar signifies past pain, a wound that did not heal as it ought. But it testifies, too, to survival...(Here…
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When does he ever think?" Richard straddled a chair and accepted a wind cup from Raoul. "If he were to…
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Poor Wales. So far from Heaven, so close to England.
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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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