Word: sinned
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...live with them. In a word he loves those who are at the bottom, who ignore or know nothing of the moral laws. He ridicules the men who bear on their shoulders the weight of society, who confound police regulations with the moral law, those who think it a sin to break a petty ordinance, but who will commit murder if the law will absolve them...
Harper's -- "Sir Arthur Sullivan's Diary," Arthur Lawrence '63; "In a State of Sin," Owen Wister '82; "Strong Points of Infancy," E. S. Martin...
...comparatively few men who do not wish to take a clean and decent attitude in life, there are many who choose the right, and yet think it is not necessary to draw a perfectly sharp line between good and evil. They think they may toy a little with sin without harm to themselves; indeed they often believe that every well-educated man should have some knowledge of the prurient and unclean...
...first reason is that ignorance is power. It is often said that the spotless man cannot help and sympathize with the man who has sinned, because of his own inexperience in sin-as if a doctor should not set a broken arm unless his own arm had been fractured. A man does not need to soil his won life to help to purify the lives of others. The great power in life belongs not to the man who is tarnished but to the man who is innocent. It is Jesus Christ, the unstained, who is the most powerful figure...
...third reason is that this ignorance holds the secret of freshness and interest in life. There is nothing new about sin. The man who knows the unclean side of life is the man who loses his vivacity and enthusiasm. It is only along the lines of the good that freshness and interest...