John Dryden Quotes About Sin
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For granting we have sinned, and that the offence Of man is made against Omnipotence, Some price that bears proportion must be paid, And infinite with infinite be weighed.
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Having mourned your sin, for outward Eden lost, find paradise within.
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A woman's counsel brought us first to woe, And made her man his paradise forego, Where at heart's ease he liv'd; and might have been As free from sorrow as he was from sin.
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In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, Ere one to one was cursedly confin'd: When Nature prompted, and no Law deni'd Promiscuous use of concubine and bride; Then, Israel's monarch, after Heaven's own heart, His vigorous warmth did variously impart To wives and slaves: and, wide as his command, Scatter'd his Maker's image through the land.
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Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.
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She feared no danger, for she knew no sin.
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Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.
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