Thomas Southerne famous quotes

When guilt is in its blush of infancy, it trembles in a tenderness of shame; and the first eye that pierces through the veil that hides the secret brings it to the face
-- Thomas Southerne

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An oath is a recognizance to heaven, binding us over in the courts above to plead to the indictment of our crimes.
-- Thomas Southerne

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Distress is virtue's opportunity: we only live to teach us how to die.
-- Thomas Southerne

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There is no courage but in innocence; no constancy but in an honest cause.
-- Thomas Southerne

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The reconciling grave swallows distinction first, that made us foes; there all lie down in peace together.
-- Thomas Southerne

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Lying's a certain mark of cowardice.
-- Thomas Southerne

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Words may be counterfeit, false coined, and current only from the tongue, without the mind; but passion is in the soul, and always speaks the heart.
-- Thomas Southerne

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Pity is akin to love.
-- Thomas Southerne

#Pity

Pity's akin to love; and every thought Of that soft kind is welcome to my soul.
-- Thomas Southerne

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If you change your attitude you will change how you see the world and discover the potential it has simply through opening up your eyes to C Differently

As I took a step toward him your eyes met mine and I saw the silent pleading for forgiveness or acceptance. I wasn't sure which. All I knew was you were Sawyer's now. My best friend was gone. I envied him and hated him for the first time that day. He'd finaly won the one prize I thought was mine.

On October 19, 2009, my sixteenth birthday, Wild Eyes officially became mine! Now it was really happening.

I'm not good at secrets, so don't tell me any.

Every man has his secret desire, I suppose, and mine is someday to own a farm.

My life has been the antithesis of that book 'The Secret'. I've always been interested in doing what I do. I love storytelling and I really enjoyed acting, but it never seemed like a realistic thing.

One of my secrets is to joke all the time.

And the founder of Christianity made no secret indeed of his estimation of the Jewish people. When He found it necessary, He drove those enemies of the human race out of the Temple of God.

Guilt: punishing yourself before God doesn't.

We all want to be guilty, because guilt is power.