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Letter "O" » offense
«No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.»
«It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher»
Author: George Whitefield
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displeased, displeases, displeasing, hearer, offense, preacher, sermon
«More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense»
«Love is always patient and kind; it is never jealous, love is never boastful or conceited; it is never rude or selfish; it does not take offense, and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people?s sins but delights in the truth; it is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes. Love does not come to an end.»
«INJURY, n. An offense next in degree of enormity to a slight.»
«I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offense»
«Let the punishment match the offense.»
«Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.»
«Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense; benefits ought to be handed ought drop by drop, so that they may be relished the more.»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
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«I know it will give great offense to the clergy, but the advocate of religious freedom is to expect neither peace nor forgiveness from them»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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advocate, advocated, advocating, clergy, offense, offenses, Peace and Freedom, religious, religious freedom, The Advocate
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