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A Quote by George Santayana

The unforgivable sin is the refusal to pardon. — © George Santayana

The unforgivable sin is the refusal to pardon.

George Santayana

George Santayana

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George Santayana

George Santayana
Spanish - Novelist
December 16, 1863 - September 26, 1952

Sin is a refusal to grow, a refusal to love, a refusal to get committed, to be concerned, and to take risks.

Anthony de Mello

Anthony de Mello

REFUSAL, n. Denial of something desired; Refusals are graded in a descending scale of finality thus: the refusal absolute, the refusal condition, the refusal tentative and the refusal feminine. The last is called by some casuists the refusal assentive.

Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose Bierce

Not only is suicide a sin, it is the sin. It is the ultimate and absolute evil, the refusal to take an interest in existence; the refusal to take the oath of loyalty to life. The man who kills a man, kills a man. The man who kills himself, kills all men. As far as he is concerned he wipes out the world.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Gilbert K. Chesterton

He who thinks he lives without sin puts aside not sin, but pardon.

Saint Augustine

Saint Augustine

Before the sin, Satan assures us that it is of no consequence; after the sin, he persuades us that it is unforgivable.

Fulton J. Sheen

Fulton J. Sheen

The one unforgivable sin is to be boring.

Christopher Hitchens

Christopher Hitchens

The only unforgivable sin: Being unforgiving.

Malcolm Forbes

Malcolm Forbes

The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.

Tennessee Williams

Tennessee Williams

That is the one unforgivable sin in any society. Be different and be damned!

Margaret Mitchell

Margaret Mitchell

That we are capable only of being what we are remains our unforgivable sin.

Gene Wolfe

Gene Wolfe

Avoiding combat duty was and is an unforgivable sin for a professional soldier.

John Eisenhower

John Eisenhower

Success is the only unforgivable sin against your neighbor.

Faina Ranevskaya

Faina Ranevskaya

The unforgivable political sin is vanity, the killer diet is sour grapes.

Neil Kinnock

Neil Kinnock

The unforgivable political sin is vanity; the killer diet is sour grapes.

Neil Kinnock

Neil Kinnock

cruelty is the only thing that strikes me as completely unforgivable. The unpardonable sin.

Rae Foley

Rae Foley

There is no word more "dangerous" than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new "unforgivable sin."

Fulton J. Sheen

Fulton J. Sheen

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