Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors.
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Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors.
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Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors
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There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. -Josh Billings.
JOSH BILLINGS What face will they show, when they go there? They will regret and repent for their sins their actio...
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I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin' hell, but as long as they ain...
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Most men had rather say a smart thing than do a good one. John P. Kotter, Leading Change -Josh Bill...
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The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And...
WILLIAM HAZLITT
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
ALICE WALKER It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know th...
EDWIN ARMSTRONG
They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins.
OSCAR WILDE
People ordinarily don't think of their orchestras as important as we'd like them to be. Peop...
DAVID OGDEN STIERS
The New World Order run by the United Nations ain't gonna happen. Because they've shown thei...
MICHAEL MORIARTY North Carolina is strong because our people are strong. They define our state - by their hard work, ...
KAY HAGAN I don't believe in that kind of American John Wayne individualism where people pull themselves u...
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON
So many older people, they just sit around all day long and they don't get any exercise. Their m...
JACK LALANNE
In youth we run into difficulties; in old age difficulties run into us. -Josh Billings.
JOSH BILLINGS
I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding; they lear...
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN A wicked book cannot repent.
PROVERB A wicked book cannot repent.
OLD PROVERB A wicked book cannot repent
PROVERB
I'm married to the street; I ain't gonna switch over. I ain't gonna go religion on nobod...
TRICK DADDY In the old days in France, they had beheadings of people who commit heinous crimes, ... Nevada Newsm...
OSCAR GOODMAN
The Protestant teachings caused people to view their work as a way of proving their love to God so t...
SUNDAY ADELAJA For me, Los Angeles, New York, where I don't know my neighbors, where people don't necessari...
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None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach peo...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS
People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.
GEORGE ELIOT Begin your day by thanking God for yet another, end your day by thanking God for blessing you to mak...
TAURUS MORGAN That's what I so admired about Johnny Cash and June Carter. Their music wasn't a big influen...
SHELBY LYNNE I just want people to know out there no matter what they've done, God doesn't judge us on ho...
LEX LUGER
My parents were admirers of President Roosevelt and the New Deal. Their parents and most of our rela...
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So much barbarism, however, still remains in the transactions of most civilized nations, that almost...
JOHN STUART MILL
Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the ...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
They will continue to recreate their victimized reality as long as they refuse to repent from it and...
DANNY SILK
Josh Billings wrote, “It’s not what a man knows that hurts him; it’s what he knows that isn’...
BRIAN TRACY I could never accept findings based almost exclusively on mathematics. It ain't ignorance that c...
EDWIN ARMSTRONG This hits so close to home because if they're undocumented or their parents, their aunts, their neig...
LUIS ALEJO Most people don’t require forgiveness for own committed sins from their victims or others because ...
ANUJ SOMANY
I'm nuts and I know it. But so long as I make 'em laugh, they ain't going to lock me up.
RED SKELTON Most people get overwhelmed by the insignificant decisions of their lives. I'm urging people to ...
ROBERT POZEN
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure tha...
MARK TWAIN I laugh at people who think their spontaneous, yet plan their spontaneous moments.
SONYA.E.WILLIAMS
Words can change their meaning, just by repeating them.
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To be poetic is how u get somebody as a girl around you...
"Dexter: You seem uncertain. I...
DEYTH BANGER
The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust. -Josh Billin...
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Most people are defined by their titles, their cars, their house, where they came from, their color,...
STEDMAN GRAHAM
Don't you know there ain't no devil, it's just god when he's drunk.
TOM WAITS
We shall have to repent in this generation , not so much for the evil deeds of the wicked people, bu...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. All of my babies know that I preach all day... I ain't trying to hide no light under no bushel. ...
BETTY WRIGHT
Normal people... believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ...
SCOTT ADAMS
I don't judge people by their accent, or how they word things, or how grammatically correct thei...
LARRY THE CABLE GUY People say, 'Well, why don't they get another job, why don't they pick themselves up by ...
CAROLYN CHUTE Jesus Christ came for me, and he came for each person that is infected with HIV/AIDS. God loves that...
FRANKLIN GRAHAM
Most people do not take care of their lives, because they don’t value life.
SUNDAY ADELAJA Many people out there don't have a choice in choosing their friends and the people they're b...
JAVIER BARDEM People who don't believe in God may have their own way of justifying some bad act they have comm...
LEE GREENWOOD
Who rules the world?… - It's for sure, ain't you!
DEYTH BANGER College ain't so much where you been as how you talk when you get back.
OSSIE DAVIS Everybody needs a little light in their life, and when they need prayer, they know where to come, be...
BETTY WRIGHT People are afraid of things they don't understand. They don't know how to relate. It threate...
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The wicked are wicked, no doubt, and they go astray and they fall, and they come by their deserts; b...
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You gotta learn that if you don't get it by midnight, chances are you ain't gonna get it, an...
CASEY STENGEL I ain't giving up on myself, so if you give up on me, I ain't got nothing else to say for yo...
FUTURE Realizing that they can't get their agenda across: against religious liberty, against a culture ...
ROD PARSLEY
Slump? I ain't in no slump... I just ain't hitting.
YOGI BERRA
If you ain't Texan, I ain't got time for you.
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Men are punished by their sins, not for them.
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If God is not sending earthquakes, destroying economies and inflicting pain upon human beings, what ...
ADAM HAMILTON I repent daily my sins, my faults, and my shortcomings.
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What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is People forget that they have to create thei...
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God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won't.
ALFRED KORZYBSKI
I don't judge people by their sexual orientation or the color of their skin, so I find it really...
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People fashion their God after their own understanding. They make their God first and worship him af...
OSCAR WILDE Now, for pure bloggers, for individual people who are just posting their own thoughts, they would st...
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People say money ain't nothing; money is basically everything.
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Judgment refers to a sound mind. When there is no sound mind in a society, people in that society do...
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Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain...
LEWIS CARROLL
Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.
ELBERT HUBBARD
Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.
KIN HUBBARD
We must repent while the chance exists, to confess our sins.
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A lot of people are doing something about their weight, but by their own reckoning, it isn't eno...
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A lot of people simply don't realize their potential because they're just so risk adverse. T...
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SIMON TRAVAGLIA It's a way of thanking them for their service.
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I ain't no author, man... my writing skills are not of 'New York Times' best-seller qual...
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There are signs, I think, that people aren't satisfied by consumerism: that people resent the fa...
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The good ole days weren't always good, and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems.
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Most people have to talk so they won't hear.
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Men are not punished for their for sins, but by them.
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Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn't.
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In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
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Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors.
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Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.
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Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.
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There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.
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Remember the poor, it costs nothing.
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Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.
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A good place to visit, but a poor place to stay.
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Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal
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Laffing iz the sensation ov pheeling good all over, and showing it principally in one spot
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The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so.
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A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates
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Contentment is a kind of moral laziness; if thare want ennything but contentment in his world, man w...
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As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for
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It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up...
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Reason often makes mistakes but conscience never does.
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The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust
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I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.
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Life consists not in holding good cards, but in playing those you hold well
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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined
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Knowledge is like money: the more one gets, the more one craves.
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Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take.
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Newfoundland dogs are good to save children from drowning, but you must have a pond of water handy a...
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Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to
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The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his way
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Life is a grindstone, and whether it grinds a man down or polishes him up depends on the stuff he's ...
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As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.
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Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well
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Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time.
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The trouble with most folks isn't their ignorance. It's knowin' so many things that ain't so.
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Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got.
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the squeeky wheel gets the grease.
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