William Shakespeare Quotes About Sin
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Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.
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Sin from thy lips? O trespass sweetly urged! Give me my sin again.
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It is great sin to swear unto a sin, But greater sin to keep a sinful oath.
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Let us our lives, our souls, Our debts, our careful wives, Our children, and our sins, lay on the King!
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It is a sin to be a mocker.
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You cannot make gross sins look clear: To revenge is no valour, but to bear.
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If you did wed my sister for her wealth, Then for her wealth's sake use her with more kindness; Or, if you like elsewhere, do it by stealth; Muffle your false love with some show of blindness; Let not my sister read it in your eye; Be not thy tongue thy own shame's orator; Look sweet, speak fair, become disloyalty; Apparel vice like virtue's harbinger; Bear a fair presence, though your heart be tainted; Teach sin the carriage of a holy saint; Be secret-false.
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Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
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Then is it sin to rush into the secret house of death. Ere death dare come to us?
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One sin, I know, another doth provoke. Murder's as near to lust as flame to smoke.
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I'll read enough When I do see the very book indeed Where all my sins are writ, and that's myself.
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Self-love is the most inhibited sin in the canon.
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Sin will pluck on sin.
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I will through and through Cleanse the foul body of th' infected world, If they will patiently receive my medicine.
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Virtue that transgresses is but patched with sin; and sin that amends is but patched with virtue.
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To kill, I grant, is sin's extremest gust; But, in defence, by mercy, 'tis most just.
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If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul.
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I am a man more sinned against than sinning
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Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy.
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Die for adultery! No: The wren goes to't, and the small gilded fly does lecher in my sight
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The tempter or the tempted, who sins most? Ha! Not she: nor doth she tempt: but it is I That, lying by the violet in the sun, Do as the carrion does, not as the flower, Corrupt with virtuous season.
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One sin another doth provoke.
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When devils will the blackest sins put on They do suggest at first with heavenly shows
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Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
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By that sin fell the angels.
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The tempter or the tempted, who sins most?
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Commit the oldest sins the newest kind of ways.
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They may seize On the white wonder of dear Juliet's hand And steal immortal blessing from her lips, Who, even in pure and vestal modesty, Still blush, as thinking their own kisses sin.
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O comfort-killing night, image of hell, Dim register and notary of shame, Black stage for tragedies and murders fell, Vast sin-concealing chaos, nurse of blame!
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Tis no sin for a man to labor in his vocation.
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