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Letter "P" » punishments
«The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.»
«It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul»
Author: William Ernest Henley
| Keywords:
captain, gate, punishments, scroll, scrolls, strait, straits, the Master
«Should one be shallow enough to view existence as a system of rewards and punishments, one soon learns that we pay as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats ...»
«Nations like individuals are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world»
«The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
indecent, mode, punishments, refined, smack, smacked, smacking, smacks, The Spiritual
«If I had believed in a God of rewards and punishments, I might have lost courage in battle»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
(Emperor, General, Politician)
| About:
Belief,
God
| Keywords:
battle, believed, punishments, rewards
«One is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalized by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
brutalize, brutalized, brutalizes, brutalizing, committed, community, crime, crimes, Crime and Punishment, employment, habitual, infinitely, inflicted, not absolutely, occasional, occurrence, occurrences, punishment, punishments, sicken, sickened, sickening, sickens, wicked
«In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
| About:
Consequences,
Nature
| Keywords:
consequences, punishments, rewards
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