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White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice.
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Nothing is so soothing to our self esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us.
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We must live for the few who know and appreciate us, who judge and absolve us, and for whom we have the same affection and indulgence. The rest I look upon as a mere crowd...from whom there is nothing to be expected but fleeting emotions.
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In days gone by, we were afraid of dying in dishonor or a state of sin.
Nowadays, we are afraid of dying fools. Now the fact is that there is no Extreme Unction to absolve us of foolishness. We endure it here on earth as subjective eternity.
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The future of humanity is uncertain, even in the most prosperous countries, and the quality of life deteriorates; and yet I believe that what is being discovered about the infinitely large and infinitely small is sufficient to absolve this end of the century and millennium. What a very few are acquiring in knowledge of the physical world will perhaps cause this period not to be judged as a pure return of barbarism.
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Of course, Third World leaders love you.
By ascribing third world ills to First World sins, you absolve them of blame for their countries' failure to advance.
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If we allow the consideration of heathen morality and heathen religion to absolve us from the duty of preaching the gospel we are really deposing Christ from His throne in our own souls.
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Absolve me, teach me, purify me, strengthen me: take me to Thyself, that I may be Thine and Thine only.