Quotes · Skopia

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Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.

1848

★ 1.1

Does capital punishment tend to the security of the people? By no means. It hardens the hearts of men, and makes the loss of life appear light to them; and it renders life insecure, inasmuch as the law holds out that property is of greater value than life.

1848

★ 1.9

To learning & law, there's no greater foe than they that nothing know.

1592

★ 1.9

Religious literature

All shall be well, and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well.

Julian of Norwich

Revelatons of Divine Love · 1395

★ 2.1

Up to and including 1880 the country had a frontier of settlement, but at present the unsettled area has been so broken into by isolated bodies of settlement that there can hardly be said to be a frontier line. In the discussion of its extent, its westward movement, etc., it can not, therefore, any longer have a place in the census reports.

Robert P. Porter

1891

★ 2.6

Look before you leap.

1590

★ 3.7

He said not "Thou shalt not be tempested, thou shall not be travailed, thou shalt not be diseased"; but he said, "Thou shalt not be overcome."

Julian of Norwich

1413

★ 3.9

You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.

The Shipping News · 1993

★ 4.4