“ There are 4 kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ In medicine sins of commission are mortal, sins of omission are venial. ”
- Theodore Tronchin- Copy
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“ A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable. ”
- Robert Fripp- Copy
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“ If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable. ”
- William Congreve- Copy
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“ There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action. ”
- Samuel Richardson- Copy
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“ God does not intend people, and does not like people, to be too good. He likes them neither too good nor too bad, but a little too bad is more venial with him than a little too good. ”
- Samuel Butler- Copy
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“ Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, To speak dishonorably is pardonable. ”
- Sophocles- Copy
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“ Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them. ”
- Bruce Lee- Copy
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“ Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty — excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable — should persist after the beauty was gone. ”
- Mary Arnim- Copy
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“ Almost all of our faults are more excusable than the means we take to hide them. ”
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld- Copy
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“ Children are guilty of unpardonable rudeness when they spit in the face of a companion; neither are they excusable who spit from windows or on walls or furniture. ”
- St. John Baptist de La Salle- Copy
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“ Such sins, even if they do not kill all grace in us, do harm, nevertheless; and though they are only venial in themselves, they make us apt, ready, and inclined to lose grace and to fall into mortal sin. ”
- Johannes Tauler- Copy
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“ To enjoy freedom, if the platitude is pardonable, we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half the house in order to water a single rose-bush; we must train them, exactly and powerfully, here on the very spot. ”
- Virginia Woolf- Copy
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