We fear doing too little when we should do more. Then atone by doing too much, when perhaps we should do less.
We fear doing too little when we should do more. Then atone by doing too much, when perhaps we should do less.
Aye, if of life I gave my own
I could not for my guilt atone.
(The authorities) have told the Iranian people not to attack diplomatic territory. Nevertheless, Western countries should atone for their mistake.
Or where the pictures for the page atone, And Quarles is saved for beauties not his own.
We in part atone for the ghoulish strife,
and the crimes of the peace we boast,
And the better part of a people's life in the storm comes uppermost.
Doyle's an intense character. Doyle's trying to atone for his own past and he has to help Angel-but he doesn't want to become too involved. On one hand, here he is preaching to Angel to get involved with humans and really care about them, but meanwhile Doyle would rather be at the track betting the ponies and drinking.
Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.
It is an admirable skill to able to sweeten a refusal with civil words which atone for the favor which we are not able to grant.
If we could sniff or swallow something that would, for five or six hours each day, abolish our solitude as individuals, atone us with our fellows in a glowing exaltation of affection and make life in all its aspects seem not only worth living, but divinely beautiful and significant, and if this heavenly, world-transfiguring drug were of such a kind that we could wake up next morning with a clear head and an undamaged constitution -- then, it seems to me, all our problems (and not merely the one small problem of discovering a novel pleasure) would be wholly solved and earth would become paradise.
The exercise of religious duty will not atone for the fault of an abusive tongue.
The ability of a person to atone has always been the most remarkable of human features.
It is tragic that the Fuehrer should have the whole nation behind him with the single exception of the Army generals. In my opinion it is only by action that they can now atone for their faults of lack of character and discipline.
Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.
What is past is past. There is a future left to all men who have the virtue to repent, and the energy to atone.
Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
For a murderous blow let murderous blow atone.
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