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- My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Romeo and Juliet, Act II, sc. 2
- I would forget it fain; But, O, it presses to my memory, like damned guilty deeds to a sinners mind.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Romeo and Juliet, Act III, sc. 2
- Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this son of York, And all the clouds that loured upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Richard III, Act I, sc. I
- Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,
Is the immediate jewel of their souls: Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands; But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him And makes me poor indeed. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Othello, Act III, sc. 3
- Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Comedy of Errors, Act III, sc. 2
- Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back
Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Troilus and Cressida, Act III, sc. 3
- But 'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Macbeth, Act I, sc. 3
- But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness-each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked-each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity.
- Herbert Butterfield, Christianity, Diplomacy and War
- Somewhere deep down we know that in the final analysis, we do decide things and that even our decisions to let someone else decide are really our decisions, however pusillanimous.
- Harvey Cox, On Not Leaving It to the Snake
- The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holders lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Sceptical Essays, 1961
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