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Maria Monk

"I have hardly detained the reader long enough on the subject, to give him a just impression of the stress laid on confession. It is one of the great points to which our attention was constantly directed."

Source : Maria Monk, Theodore Dwight, John Jay Slocum, William K. Hoyte (1836). “Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk: As Exhibited in a Narrative of Her Sufferings During a Residence of Five Years as a Novice, and Two Years as a Black Nun, in the Hotel Dieu Nunnery at Montreal”, p.78, New York : Howe & Bates

Maria Monk

#Stress Quotes #Long Quotes #Giving Quotes

“Potential has a shelf life.”
“If we're so awful and we're so bad, you ought to check out the nightlife in Leningrad.”
“We need a very strong military to protect the freedoms we do have.”
“To have a good enemy, choose a friend; he knows where to strike.”
“Everything seemed to change on that one day, but really, I think, things had been changing and changing over the course of many previous days, and perhaps what eventually appears to be information always appears at first to be just flotsam, meaningless fragments, until enough flotsam accretes to manifest, when one notices it, a construction.”
“He wasn't perfect, but he was perfect for her.”
“One hour with a child is like a ten-mile run.”
“To know only artificial night is as absurd and evil as to know only artificial day.”

"I have hardly detained the reader long enough on the subject, to give him a just impression of the stress laid on confession. It is one of the great points to which our attention was constantly directed."

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