Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Quotes: Sin (1)


 Sin      544         "…the policy of our ancestors to search out even the most secret sins, and expose them to shame, without fear or favor, in the broadest light of the noonday sun." Hawthorne: “Endicott and the Red Cross”

Sin      1055      " …a man who, on his own confession, had committed the only crime for which Heaven could afford no mercy." Hawthorne: “Ethan Brand: A Chapter from an Abortive Romance”

Sin      1056       "…the man and the fiend each laboring to frame the image of some mode of guilt, which could neither be atoned for,--nor forgiven." Hawthorne: “Ethan Brand: A Chapter from an Abortive Romance”

Sin      1056       "…dreadful task of extending man’s possible guilt beyond the scope of Heaven’s  infinite mercy."Hawthorne: “Ethan Brand: A Chapter from an Abortive Romance”

Sin      1056       " 'Man!' sternly replied Ethan Brand, What need have I of the devil?…I have left him behind me on my track; it is with such half-way sinners as you that he busies himself." Hawthorne: “Ethan Brand: A Chapter from an Abortive Romance”

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