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«It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, when Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature.»
Author: Alice Meynell | Keywords: lapsed, lapses
«The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.»
«Mumbling obeisance to abhorrence of apartheid is like those lapsed believers who cross themselves when entering a church.»
«No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.»
«There is no such thing as a minor lapse of integrity»
Author: Tom Peters | About: Ethics | Keywords: integrity, lapse, lapsed, lapses, lapsing, minor, minors
«It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found / not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.»
«In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime. But all these times and places and occasions are now and here. God himself culminates in the present moment and will never be more divine in the lapse of the ages. Time is but a stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it, but when I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away but eternity remains.»
«Liquid lapse of murmuring streams.»
«As for literature, thefts cannot harm it, while the lapse of ages augments its value»
«Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life. Each lapse is like the letting fall of a ball of string which one is carefully winding up; a single slip undoes more than a great many turns will wind again.»