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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
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
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
there is only one unpardonable sin--deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven. -- Truman Capote
Cowardice in a race, as in an individual, is the unpardonable sin. -- Theodore Roosevelt
Skepticism is the highest duty and blind faith the one unpardonable sin. -- Thomas Huxley
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cruelty is the only thing that strikes me as completely unforgivable. The unpardonable sin. -- Rae Foley
I do not know of any, excepting the unpardonable sin, that is greater than the sin of ingratitude. -- Brigham Young
Submission to poverty is the unpardonable sin against the body. Submission to unhappiness is the unpardonable sin against the spirit. -- Rebecca West
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
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
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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