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Tag Name "Purgatory" (28)

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Angst is not the human condition, it’s the purgatory between what we have and what we want but can’t get.
Miguel Syjuco
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The threat of a neglected cold is for doctors what the threat of purgatory is for priests-a gold mine.
Nicolas Chamfort
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We must empty purgatory with our prayers.
Pio of Pietrelcina
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Time is a purgatory that has cleansed all fury from my memories.
Sándor Márai
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Old age is the Outpatient's Dept of purgatory.
William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley
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You are My Mother, the Mother of Mercy, and the consolation of the souls in Purgatory.
Brigit of Kildare
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Gold is the most precious of all commodities gold constitutes treasure, and he who possesses it has all he needs in the world, as also the means of rescuing souls from purgatory, and restoring them to the enjoyment of paradise.
Christopher Columbus
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We in Purgatory sing fondly of Hell.
Denis Johnson
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Any wife will save you from purgatory, and a diligent one will secure heaven to you.
Elizabeth Montagu
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I have held and hold souls to be immortal.... Speaking as a Catholic, they do not pass from body to body, but go to paradise, purgatory or hell. But I have reasoned deeply, and, speaking as a philosopher, since the soul is not found without body and yet is not body, it may be in one body or in another, and pass from body to body.
Giordano Bruno
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So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history.
Henry Louis Gates
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If the politics of inaction and delay that have triumphed in this country continues for another decade, then Planetary Purgatory in the likely future facing our country before midcentury - probably in your own lifetime.
Joseph J. Romm
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My first job out of college was as an editorial assistant in a New York publishing house. Being an editorial assistant is the purgatory would-be editors must endure before they can ascend the ladder and begin acquiring books on their own. I spent a year filing paperwork, writing copy, and typing rejection letters.
Lincoln Child
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What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast property to the church, when a man gave his perishable substance to save himself from the dark torments of purgatory.
Mary Wollstonecraft
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The limitless jet-lag purgatory of Immigration and Baggage at Heathrow.
Monica Dickens
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I want to serve. I love my country. I love service above self and I don't want my talents to go to waste. I also want to send a message to other men and women who've tripped over themselves, or over life: that you need to serve your time in purgatory.
Paula Broadwell
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The Catholic Church is a thousand times better than your Protestant Church upon that question [of damnation]. The Catholic Church believes in purgatory - that is, a place where a fellow can get a chance to make a motion for a new trial.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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'Rocky' represents the optimistic side of life, and 'Rambo' represents purgatory.
Sylvester Stallone
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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
Abraham Lincoln
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If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.
Charles Spurgeon
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Heaven is purpose, principle, and people. Purgatory is paper and procedure. Hell is rules and regulations.
Dee Hock
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Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame - to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a hell.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Tis a petty kind of fame At best, that comes of making violins And saves no masses, either. Thou wilt go To purgatory none the less.
George Eliot
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Life would go out in a 'fraction of a second' (that was the phrase), but all night he had been realizing that time depends on clocks and the passage of light. There were no clocks and the light wouldn't change. Nobody really knew how long a second of pain could be. It might last a whole purgatory--or for ever.
Graham Greene
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