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punishment people reform
Guide them by edicts, keep them in line with punishments, and the common people will stay out of trouble but will have no sense of shame. Guide them by virtue, keep them in line with the rites, and they will, besides having a sense of shame, reform themselves. Confucius
punishment honor wish
I wish I could undo what I did at Enron but I can't. I understand that I deserve punishment. Your honor, I accept the prison sentence that you are about to impose and will serve it without bitterness. Andrew Fastow
punishment trying mouths
Face it," Gary told her kindly. "You'll never catch up. You just do as much as you can and take the punishments without saying anything. Sometimes I wonder if that isn't what they're really trying to teach us--to take plenty and keep our mouths shut. Tamora Pierce
punishment may sin
Sins may be forgiven. Crimes require punishment. George R. R. Martin
punishment rewards tongue
Loquacity with tongue or pen is its own reward -- or, punishment. George Eliot
punishment people desire
The fear of punishment, the desire of reward, the sense of duty, are all useful arguments, in their way, to persuade people to holiness. But they are all weak and powerless, until a person loves Christ. J. C. Ryle
punishment doe needs
Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it. Georges Bernanos
punishment virtue
One is punished best for one's virtues. Friedrich Nietzsche
punishment decay criminals
In a well governed state, there are few punishments, not because there are many pardons, but because criminals are rare; it is when a state is in decay that the multitude of crimes is a gaurantee of impunity. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
merit plagiarism preservation
Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation. Benjamin Disraeli
merit peculiar care
The good must merit God's peculiar care; But who but God can tell us who they are? Alexander Pope
merit sorts support
If there's some outcome, some merit in those sorts of things (I would support the summit), Mr Howard
merit given concerned
You have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don't be concerned with who is watching you. Create your own merit. Epictetus
literature faces mysterious
As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify. Arthur Conan Doyle
literature rich resources
Few nations match our rich resource of literature. Charles Clarke
literature life-is hell
Without literature, life is hell. Charles Bukowski
literature recognition reason
Poets are always the advance guard of literature; the advance guard of life. It is for this reason that their recognition comes so slowly. Amy Lowell
literature human-nature sometimes
Sometimes you do something, and you get screwed. Sometimes it's the things you don't do, and you get screwed. Chuck Palahniuk
literature language
Literature exists inside the language. It's made of words. Amos Oz
literature psychological
Literature is not made of ideas and it's not made of concepts, of psychological analysis. It's made of words.
literature painting music-is
In the same way in which music is made of notes and a painting is made of lines of colors, the matter of literature are words.
literature language
Literature belongs first and foremost to the language in which it is being written.