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'What is the Unpardonable Sin' asked the lime-burner 'It is a sin that grew within my own breast', replied Ethan Brand 'The sin of an intellect that triumphed over the sense of brotherhood with man and reverence for God'. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows. -- Ambrose Bierce
The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought. -- Emma Goldman
Long hair is an unpardonable offence which should be punishable by death. -- Steven Patrick Morrissey
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin. -- Thomas Huxley
All who call the Holy Ghost a creature we pity, on the ground that, by this utterance, they are falling into the unpardonable sin of blasphemy against Him. -- Saint Basil
If nothing is to be done in the given situation, he must invent plausible reasons for doing nothing; and if something must be done, he must suggest the something. The unpardonable sin is to propose nothing, when action is imperative. -- Charles Edward Merriam
Coercion. The unpardonable crime. -- Dorothy Richardson
Forgiveness is the one unpardonable sin. -- Dorothy L. Sayers
I still think sincere pessimism the unpardonable sin. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
...the unpardonable sin is to be an unpleasant person. -- Galen Starr Ross
The most unpardonable privilege that men enjoy is their magnanimity. -- Germaine Greer
A speculative despair is unpardonable where it our duty to act. -- Edmund Burke
Cowardice in a race, as in an individual, is the unpardonable sin. -- Theodore Roosevelt
there is only one unpardonable sin--deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven. -- Truman Capote
There are two unpardonable sins in this world -- success and failure. -- George Horace Lorimer
Long hair is an unpardonable offense which should be punishable by death. -- Steven Morrissey
Skepticism is the highest duty and blind faith the one unpardonable sin. -- Thomas Huxley
People will forgive anything but beauty and talent. So I am doubly unpardonable. -- James Whistler
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There is nothing so unpardonable as to consent to a senseless, aimless, purposeless life. -- Robert Browning
cruelty is the only thing that strikes me as completely unforgivable. The unpardonable sin. -- Rae Foley
It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable. -- Agnes Repplier
In the society of ladies, want of sense is not so unpardonable as want of manners. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
Stated baldly, charity certainly means one of two things"?pardoning unpardonable acts, or loving unlovable people. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
I have seen that every one forgives much in themselves that they find unpardonable in other people. -- Amelia Barr
No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style. -- Oscar Wilde
I do not know of any, excepting the unpardonable sin, that is greater than the sin of ingratitude. -- Brigham Young
To misuse one's talent, to be cavalier about it, to set it aside because of fear or sloth is unpardonable. -- James Lee Burke
Submission to poverty is the unpardonable sin against the body. Submission to unhappiness is the unpardonable sin against the spirit. -- Rebecca West
Extremism is the pursuit of the presidency is an unpardonable vice. Moderation in the affairs of the nation is the highest virtue. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
The sin which is unpardonable is knowingly and wilfully to reject truth, to fear knowledge lest that knowledge pander not to thy prejudices. -- Aleister Crowley
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
I am not sure just what the unpardonable sin is, but I believe it is a disposition to evade the payment of small bills. -- Elbert Hubbard
When a sinner has any just sense of his condition, as alienated from a holy God, he will not be apt to think of the unpardonable sin. -- Ichabod Spencer
My life and work have been far from free of blemish, and so I think it would be unpardonable for a biographer not to dish up the dirt. -- William Styron
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. -- Jean-Baptiste de La Salle
Cannabis, just like morphine, has its usage in medicine. It's unpardonable that authorities forbid sick people access to this medicament and in majesty of law permit to sell cigarettes. -- Jerzy Vetulani
The children of the white families in town were not permitted to associate with me, because my father was committing the then unpardonable crime, in Southern eyes, of educating negroes. -- Lee De Forest
The real secret of happiness is simply this: to be willing to live and let live, and to know very clearly in one's own mind that the unpardonable sin is to be an unpleasant person. -- Galen Starr Ross

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