Henry David Thoreau Quotes About Sin
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Birds never sing in caves.
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We cannot well do without our sins; they are the highway of our virtue.
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I, who cannot stay in my chamber for a single day without acquiring some rust, and when sometimes I have stolen forth for a walk at the eleventh hour of four o'clock in the afternoon, too late to redeem the day, when the shades of night were already beginning to be mingled with the daylight, have felt as if I had committed some sin to be atoned for.
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Alas! this is the crying sin of the age, this want of faith in the prevalence of a man. Nothing can be effected but by one man. Hewho wants help wants everything. True, this is the condition of our weakness, but it can never be the means of our recovery. We must first succeed alone, that we may enjoy our success together.
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After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.
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Every gazette brings accounts of the untutored freaks of the wind,--shipwrecks and hurricanes which the mariner and planter acceptas special or general providences; but they touch our consciences, they remind us of our sins. Another deluge would disgrace mankind.
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In a pleasant spring morning all men's sins are forgiven.
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The only sin in the world is ignorance.
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When the reptile is attacked at one mouth of his burrow, he shows himself at another.
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