Forgive me, Valentine; if hearty sorrow
Be a sufficient ransom for offence,
I tender 't here; I do as truly suffer
As e'er I did commit.
Forgive me, Valentine; if hearty sorrow
Be a sufficient ransom for offence,
I tender 't here; I do as truly suffer
As e'er I did commit.
The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness.
I think a bishop who doesn't give offence to anyone is probably not a good bishop.
How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense,
And love th' offender, yet detest th' offence?
When I was in my 20s it did occur to me that there was something perverted about an attitude that thought that killing somebody was a minor offence compared to kissing somebody.
I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.
Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.
Your pleasure was my mere offence, my punishment
Itself, and all my treason; that I suffer'd
Was all the harm I did.
An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.
Thus can my love excuse the slow offence
Of my dull bearer, when from thee I speed:
From where thou art, why should I haste me thence?
No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
I'm a great dog fanatic. My own dog died a little while ago and I take it very personally when things die - it's a major offence.
I fear a permanent Confederation will never be settled; tho the most material articles are I think got thro', so as to give great offence to some, but to my Satisfaction.
'Tis easier for the generous to forgive, than for offence to ask it.
I find that to be a fool as to worldly wisdom, and to commit my cause to God, not fearing to offend men, who take offence at the simplicity of truth, is the only way to remain unmoved at the sentiments of others.
And so to publish Tarquin's foul offence; Which being done with speedy diligence, The Romans plausibly did give consent; To Tarquin's everlasting banishment.
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