"Blushing, palpitations, a bad conscience--this is what you get if you haven't sinned."

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Karl Kraus

#Blushing Quotes #Conscience Quotes

“Death was just the beginning of a journey that everyone took at some point.”
“For decades, this great leader, often at Dr. King's side, was denied his rightful place in history because he was openly gay. No medal can change that, but today, we honor Bayard Rustin's memory by taking our place in his march towards true equality, no matter who we are or who we love.”
“We (The British) have not journeyed across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy.”
“Andy Paley got us a show opening for his band at an outdoor show at Simmon's College, on a Friday.”
“The selective instinct of the artist tells him when his language should be homely, and when it should be more elevated; and it is precisely in the imperceptible blending of the plain with the ornate that a great writer is distinguished. He uses the simplest phrases without triviality, and the grandest without a suggestion of grandiloquence.”
“The ocean can be yours; why should you stop Beguiled by dreams of evanescent dew? The secrets of the sun are yours, but you Content yourself with motes trapped in beams.”
“Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love.”

Source : Gilbert Parker “The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker”, Library of Alexandria
“A promise made should be a promise kept.”

Source : Steve Forbes (1999). “A New Birth of Freedom: Vision for America”, Regnery Publishing

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