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«But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.»
«He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a blot.»
«He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels (Revelations 3:5).»
«And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out with the bitter water: / And he shall cause the woman to drink the bitter water that causeth the curse: and the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter.»
«And the LORD said unto Moses, Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book.»
«And the LORD said not that he would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven: but he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash.»
«Furthermore the LORD spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people: / Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven: and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they.»
«Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.»
«Blot out his name, then, record one lost soul more, / One task more declined, one more footpath untrod, / One more devil's-triumph and sorrow for angels, / One wrong more to man, one more insult to God!»
«Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
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