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There is no sinner like a young saint.


Aphra Behn

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There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO There is no saint without a past, and no sinner without a future.
SHRI HAIDAKHAN BABAJI All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn, for it was she who earned ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Born a saint, die a sinner -- born a sinner, die a saint.
DOUG HORTON The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinne...
OSCAR WILDE The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinn...
OSCAR WILDE Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
HERMANN HESSE Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
OSCAR WILDE God knows I'm no saint, but I don't think I'm more of a sinner than any other man.
GEORGETTE HEYER Would she could make of me a saint,Or I of her a sinner.
WILLIAM CONGREVE The more I had to act like a saint, the more I felt like being a sinner.
MAX VON SYDOW Saint. A dead sinner revised and edited.
AMBROSE BIERCE Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
AMBROSE BIERCE Saint, noun. A dead sinner revised and edited.
AMBROSE BIERCE SAINT, n. A dead sinner revised and edited.
AMBROSE BIERCE Patience of a saint. The mind of a sinner.
ELLA FRANK Every saint had a past, Every sinner has a future.
JOHN ALEXANDER TRISTRAM So don't preach at us like you're some kind of saint. You're just another sinner.
RACHEL CAINE I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.
NELSON MANDELA One breath as a saint is better than an eternal life as a sinner
MEGHNA CHOUDHURY An industrious sinner I much prefer to a lazy saint.
SOPHIE KERR Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
OSCAR WILDE The greater the sinner, the greater the saint
ENGLISH PROVERB The mercies of God make a sinner proud, but a saint humble.
THOMAS WATSON Men who ape the saint and play the sinner.
UNKNOWN You cannot make a sinner into a saint by killing him. He who does not live as a saint here will neve...
CHARLES SPURGEON A saint is not a person who does not sin; but a sinner who never stops doing good
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Faith, sir, we are here today, and gone tomorrow.
APHRA BEHN Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret.
APHRA BEHN He that knew all that learning ever writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet.
APHRA BEHN That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend an...
APHRA BEHN One hour of right-down love is worth an age of dully living on.
APHRA BEHN Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of je...
APHRA BEHN Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
APHRA BEHN Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.
APHRA BEHN Variety is the soul of pleasure.
APHRA BEHN Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
APHRA BEHN Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
APHRA BEHN Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
APHRA BEHN Patience is a flatterer, sir and an ass, sir
APHRA BEHN No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.
APHRA BEHN Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.
APHRA BEHN Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life
APHRA BEHN Oh, what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour!
APHRA BEHN That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend an...
APHRA BEHN All I ask, is the privilege for my masculine part the poet in me. . . . If I must not, because of my...
APHRA BEHN Here lies a Proof that Wit can never be
Defence enough against Mortality
APHRA BEHN He that knew all that learning ever writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet
APHRA BEHN Come away; poverty's catching
APHRA BEHN That perfect tranquility of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and...
APHRA BEHN Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner
ERIC HOFFER Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner.
ERIC HOFFER I wish people wouldn't think of me as a saint - unless they agree with the definition of a saint...
AUNG SAN SUU KYI Truth is the world's oldest saint, pride is the world's oldest sinner, and love is the world's oldes...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Better is the sinner who hath thoughts about God, than the saint who hath only the show of sanctity.
SADI I am not a saint; I am a sinner. I want to sin again and
again and again.
S. JAE-JONES A young Saint - an old Devil, (mark this, an old saying, and as true a one as, a Young Whore an old ...
FRANCOIS RABELAIS No one awakens in the morning thinking they will die that day. Not a saint or a sinner. Not even a c...
CHRISTOPHER PIKE No one awakens in the morning thinking they will die that day. Not a saint or a sinner. Not even a c...
CHRISTOPHER PIKE The lily is all in white, like a saint, And so is no mate for me.
THOMAS HOOD I don't want a girl who only feels comfortable in either a temple or a discotheque. She has to be bo...
SOHIL ASHVIN SHAH I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix.
DEYTH BANGER Wou'd I were free from this restraint, Or else had hopes to win her; Wou'd she cou'd make me a saint...
WILLIAM CONGREVE There is a hope of salvation for every sinner.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA When carrying the burden of problems and stress that life seems to endlessly hurtle towards us. We g...
GARY F EVANS... To have hope in an age where hope is very scarce and hurt, jealousy and pain are more prominent is a...
GARY F EVANS... Truth metastasized into lurid fantasy.
F. MULDER 'You are no saint,' says the devil. Well, if I am not, I am a sinner, and Jesus Christ came ...
CHARLES SPURGEON There is no injustice in the grace of God. God is as just when He forgives a believer as when He cas...
CHARLES SPURGEON No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.
MARK TWAIN There is no time like the old time, when you and I were young!"
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES There is no thing known as bad luck. There is luck, or no luck at all.
JEFFREY FRY My basic philosophy is that no human being is a saint.
DAVID MARANISS A very man--not one of nature's clods-- With human failings, whether saint or sinner: Endowed ...
J.G. SAXE There’s no sin problem. Jesus settled that. There’s just a sinner problem. Get the sinner to Jes...
KENNETH E. HAGIN All the hungers we have for love, for union, for happiness are given by God to lead us to him. The d...
CHRISTOPHER WEST SAINT, n. A dead sinner revised and edited. The Duchess of Orleans relates that the irreverent old c...
AMBROSE BIERCE There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.
MARK TWAIN People cry out against the sinner, yet it is not the sinful, but the stupid, who are our shame. Ther...
OSCAR WILDE Concluding a short series on sin: It is appalling to think of a power so strong that it can annihi...
CHARLES H. BRENT I have no quarrel with people seeing me as a sinner.
MARIO CUOMO He answered and said, Whether he be a sinner or no, I know not: one thing I know, that, whereas I wa...
BIBLE She's no angel.
He's no saint.
ELVIS COSTELLO Hakuna mimi katika umoja. Kuna sisi.
ENOCK MAREGESI If there is no love, how can there be passion or reason?
DEBASISH MRIDHA I can’t reveal the mystery to either saint or sinner; I can’t state at length what I’ve said c...
OMAR KHAYYáM A sinner needs a Saviour. Just like a lost sheep needs a shepherd.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Yet if thou didst but know how little wit governs this mighty universe.
MRS. APHRA JOHNSON BEHN If things on earth may be to heaven resembled, It must be love, pure, constant, undissembled.
MRS. APHRA JOHNSON BEHN Saint Luke was a Saint and a Physitian, yet is dead.
GEORGE HERBERT Of all the sarse that I can call to mind, / England does make the most onpleasant kind: / It's you'r...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL A pool just isn't the same as the ocean. It has no energy. No life.
LINDA GERBER There was never a saint with red hair
RUSSIAN PROVERB I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre....
POPE FRANCIS Life is a lot like skateboarding.
LIL WAYNE A man is called a saint not because he does no longer sin but because he recognizes his weakness and...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA A man is called a sinner not because he sins more than others but because he defends he sins and glo...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is...
GAUTAMA BUDDHA There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is...
BUDDHA There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.
MARK TWAIN

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Faith, sir, we are here today, and gone tomorrow.
APHRA BEHN Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret.
APHRA BEHN He that knew all that learning ever writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet.
APHRA BEHN That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend an...
APHRA BEHN One hour of right-down love is worth an age of dully living on.
APHRA BEHN Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of je...
APHRA BEHN Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
APHRA BEHN Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.
APHRA BEHN Variety is the soul of pleasure.
APHRA BEHN Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
APHRA BEHN Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
APHRA BEHN Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
APHRA BEHN Patience is a flatterer, sir and an ass, sir
APHRA BEHN No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.
APHRA BEHN Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.
APHRA BEHN Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life
APHRA BEHN Oh, what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour!
APHRA BEHN That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend an...
APHRA BEHN All I ask, is the privilege for my masculine part the poet in me. . . . If I must not, because of my...
APHRA BEHN Here lies a Proof that Wit can never be
Defence enough against Mortality
APHRA BEHN He that knew all that learning ever writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet
APHRA BEHN Come away; poverty's catching
APHRA BEHN That perfect tranquility of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and...
APHRA BEHN Yet if thou didst but know how little wit governs this mighty universe.
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