Source: The Tea Rose
“If you err it is not for me to punish you. We are punished by our sins not for them.”
Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul
in The Note Book, Kessinger Publishing (reprint 1998) ISBN 0766104168, 9780766104167
Source: The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927), p. 12
“Men are punished by their sins, not for them.”
Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul
Variant: We are punished by our sins not for them.
Source: Love, Life and Work
Source: The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927), p. 12
in The Note Book, Kessinger Publishing (reprint 1998)
Context: If you err it is not for me to punish you. We are punished by our sins not for them.
“Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.”
Kin Hubbard (1868–1930) cartoonist
As quoted in Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists (2007) by James Geary, p. 39
“A shaping stone, to make us; a testing ground to prove our worth; and a punishment for the sin.”
Robert Jordan (1948–2007) American writer
Aiel on the Three Fold Land
(15 November 1990)
“I see this wicked creature ordained of God to punish us for our sins and unthankfulness.”
Francis Walsingham (1532–1590) English spy, diplomat and politician
Letter to the Earl of Leicester (15 October 1586) on Mary, Queen of Scots, quoted in John Cooper, The Queen's Agent: Francis Walsingham at the Court of Elizabeth I (2011), pp. 226–227
“756. Every sin brings its punishment with it.”
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“The aim of the law is not to punish sins, but is to prevent certain external results.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841–1935) United States Supreme Court justice
Commonwealth v. Kennedy, 170 Mass. 18, 20 (1897) (opinion of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts).
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