Richard Brinsley Sheridan · 91 pages
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“Tale-bearers are as bad as the tale-makers.”
“The heart that is conscious of its own integrity is ever slow to credit another´s treachery.”
“To pity, without the power to relieve, is still more painful than to ask and be denied.”
“If to raise malicious smiles at the infirmities or misfortunes of those who have never injured us be the province of wit or humour, Heaven grant me a double portion of dullness.”
“... if Charles is undone, he'll find half his acquaintance ruined too, and that, you know, is a consolation.”
“-'tis an old observation, and a very true one; but what's to be done, as I said before? how will you prevent people from talking?...”
“Alas! the devil's sooner raised than laid.”
“One time Mom told me the people
you can be quiet with
are the ones
you are the most comfortable with.”
“Josephus was considered the main source for the history of Judea and, as a tireless historian, boldly proclaimed he would leave out nothing of consequence to Jewish history in his chronicles. He had served as governor of Galilee, and at the beginning of the Jewish war with Rome, 66 A.D., was a general of the Roman forces in Galilee. A few decades earlier, according to the Gospels, Jesus attracted great crowds to Judea. But Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews did not record the savior story we read in the Christian gospels. He did cover many major and minor details of the period, even reporting a number of deeds and decrees of Pontius Pilate, the Roman prefect that, according to the gospels, allowed the Sanhedrin to condemn Jesus to death.”
“The Bible says he was raised not just after the blood-shedding, but by it. This means that what the death of Christ accomplished was so full and so prefect that the resurrection was the reward and vindication of Christ's achievement in death.”
“In the final analysis, the only available options are either to reject the cross and with it the core of the Christian faith or to take up one's cross, follow the Crucified-and be scandalized ever anew by the challenge.”
“No man wants his wife to be a woman that other men don't desire....But every man wants his wife to be a woman that other men don't get.”
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