"One's conscience reproaches one much more stingingly for one's follies than one's crimes."

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Source : Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury (1892). “Selections from the Letters of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle”

Geraldine Jewsbury

#Crime Quotes #Folly Quotes #Conscience Quotes

“Feel the needs of others more than your own.”
“I wasn't sure if I admired him for feeling everything so hard and fiercely, or if I was contemptuous of him for having so much emotion that he had to spill it out every window of the house.”
“Whatever necessity lays upon thee, endure; whatever she commands, do.”
“The evidence for Jesus' resurrection is so strong that nobody would question it except for two things: First, it is a very unusual event. And second, if you believe it happened, you have to change the way you live.”
“I ain't apologizing for anything, especially if it's a joke.”

Source : Interview With Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. January 7, 2010.
“If you learn only methods, you'll be tied to your methods, but if you learn principles you can devise your own methods.”
“He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much a master of the world as he who is ready to die.”
“I can't say the advertising model is obsolete yet but it doesn't make a lot of sense in the long range.”

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