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• Whoever would entitle himself after death through the merits of his Redeemer, to the noblest of rewards, let him serve God throughout life in this most excellent of all duties, doing good to our brethren. Whoever is sensible of his offences, let him take this way especially of evidencing his repentance.

  Thomas Secker

  Charity, Rewards, Way

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• Reproof, especially as it relates to children, administered in all gentleness, will render the culprit not afraid, but ashamed to repeat the offence.

  Hosea Ballou

  Children, Culprit, Ashamed

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• The more gifted by nature is a man, the more is deplorable the abuse that he does by using them to shameful ends. A swindler (or crook) of higher condition is more blameworthy than a vulgar scoundrel; an intelligent eveil-doer, having benefited from a higher education, represent a more saddening phenomenon ("phénomène", Fr.) than an unfortune illiterate fellow having commited an offence.

  African Spir

  Men, Intelligent, Abuse

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 48), 1937.

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• True delicacy, as true generosity, is more wounded by an offence from itself--if I may be allowed the expression--than to itself.

  Sir Fulke Greville

  Expression, Generosity, Delicacy

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• A very small offence may be a just cause for great resentment: it is often much less the particular instance which is obnoxious to us than the proof it carries with it of the general tenor and disposition of the mind from whence it sprung.

  Sir Fulke Greville

  Mind, May, Causes

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• We enter our studies, and enjoy a society which we alone can bring together. We raise no jealousy by conversing with one in preference to another; we give no offence to the most illustrious by questioning him as long as we will, and leaving him as abruptly. Diversity of opinion raises no tumult in our presence: each interlocutor stands before us, speaks or is silent, and we adjourn or decide the business at our leisure.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Long, Giving, Diversity

  Walter Savage Landor (1824). “Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen”, p.4

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• The fastidious taste will find offence in the occasional vulgarisms, or what we now call slang, which not a few of our writers seem to have affected.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Taste, Occasional, Slang

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• God will forgive you if you forgive others. Forgiving those who cause offence or injury is often exceedingly difficult. And yet, forgiveness is one of the most beautiful and important teachings of Jesus Christ. It is central to the gospel because, without it, you can't go to heaven.

  Patrick Madrid

  Beautiful, Jesus, Teaching

  Patrick Madrid (2012). “A Year with the Bible: Scriptural Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.21, TAN Books

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• A small unkindness is a great offence.

  Hannah More

  Kindness, Unkindness

  Hannah More (1853). “Tragedies, poems”, p.338

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• Once divested of missionary virus, the cult of our gods gives no offence. It would be a peaceful age if this were recognized, and religion, Christian, communist or any other, were to rely on practice and not on conversion for her growth.

  Freya Stark

  Christian, Practice, Giving

  Freya Stark (1964). “The Journey's Echo: Selections”

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• Man and wife are equally concerned, to avoid all offence of each other, in the beginning of their conversation. Every little thing can blast an infant blossom.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Men, Wife, Littles

  Thomas Smart Hughes, Thomas Sherlock, Jeremy Taylor (1837). “Summaries of the sermons and discourses of Sherlock and Jeremy Taylor”, p.309

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• This is practically the language used to fallen women, and chiefly by their own sex: "God may forgive you, but we never can!" - a declaration which, however common, in spirit if not in substance, is, when one comes to analyse it, unparalleled in its arrogance of blasphemy. That for a single offence, however grave, a whole life should be blasted, is a doctrine repugnant even to Nature's own dealings in the visible world.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Sex, Arrogance, Forgiving

  "A Woman's Thoughts About Women" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, (Ch. 11), 1858.

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• No offence to Hugh MacLennan, but you don't even have to know or understand any deep philosophy that's being espoused, you can just have the feeling of those words together, and that you know them and can sing along with that melody with your fist up in the air. It's a wild vehicle for sentiment, because it's so powerful on the musical front.

  Sarah Harmer

  Powerful, Philosophy, Air

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Have you ever noticed how few sitting places you find in private gardens? How seldom the versatility and importance of benches is considered? True gardeners, with their peerless taste, dexterity and inspired planting, never stop . . . To sit is almost an offence, a sign of depravity and an outrage towards every felicitous refinement that has gone into making a garden.

  Mirabel Osler

  Garden, Benches, Taste

  "The garden bench". Book by Mirabel Osler, 1991.

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• In the 1950s, buggery was a criminal offence. Now it's a requirement to receive benefits from the federal government.

  Garry Breitkreuz

  Government, Criminals, Benefits

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• When you commit a serious doping offence you are not eligible for lottery funding.

  John Scott

  Serious, Funding, Commit

  "Korchemny in plea bargain" by Duncan Mackay, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2005.

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• Underhand euphemism are used, not so much to conceal offence and to deliberately disguise a topic and deceive

  Kate Burridge

  Topics, Deceiving, Used

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• My belief is, from all that I have seen of the French people and their Government, that they are much more likely to presume upon our weakness than to take offence at our strength.

  Robert Peel

  Government, People, Weakness

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• As in smooth oil the razor best is whet, So wit is by politeness sharpest set; Their want of edge from their offence is seen, Both pain us least when exquisitely keen.

  Edward Young

  Pain, Oil, Razors

  Edward Young, John Doran, James Nichols (1854). “The Complete Works, Poetry and Prose of the Rev. Edward Young, LL.D.: Revised and Collated with the Earliest Editions. To which is Prefixed A Life of the Author”, p.358

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• Once I was on a plane and a woman said to me, 'Now, what's the matter with my tomatoes?' And I said, 'Well, it's a bit difficult to see from here.' She took offence and said, 'I was only trying to be friendly.'

  Alan Titchmarsh

  Trying, Friendly, Tomatoes

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• Forgetting offences is a sign of sincere repentance. If you keep the memory of them, you may believe you have repented but you are like someone running in his sleep. Let no one consider it a minor defect, this darkness that often clouds the eyes even of spiritual people.

  John Climacus

  Forgiveness, Running, Spiritual

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• Remembrance of Jesus' passion will heal your soul of resentment, by making it ashamed of itself when it remembers the patience of the Lord. Some people have wearied themselves and suffered for a long time in order to extract forgiveness. By far the best course, however, is to forget the offences, since the Lord says: "Forgive at once and you will be forgiven in generous measure." (cf. Luke 6:37-38)

  John Climacus

  Forgiveness, Jesus, Passion

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• Honestly some folk will take offence at anything, I met a bloke with no legs this morning while at the bus stop, all I asked was "How are you getting on?"

  Billy Connolly

  Funny, Morning, Humor

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• Accurate scholarship can
  unearth the whole offence
  from luther untill noe
  that has driven a culture mad.
  From what occured at linz
  what huge imago made
  a psychopathic god.
  i and the public know
  what all schoolchildren learn
  those to whom evil is done
  do evil in return.

  W. H. Auden

  Evil, Mad, Culture

  "September 1, 1939" l. 19 (1939)

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• If the individuals who compose the purest circles of aristocracy in Europe, the guarded blood of centuries, should pass in review,in such manner as that we could, at leisure, and critically inspect their behavior, we might find no gentleman, and no lady; for, although excellent specimens of courtesy and high-breeding would gratify us in the assemblage, in the particulars, we should detect offence. Because, elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Blood, Europe, Circles

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1476, Delphi Classics

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