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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=384613" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Deadliest Sin</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">There are not many sins when once we sift them.<br>In actions of evolving human souls<br>Striving to reach high goals<br>And falling backward into dust and mire,<br>Some element we find that seems to lift them<br>Above our condemnation-even higher<br>Into the realm of pity and compassion.<br>So beauteous a thing as love itself can fashion<br>A chain of sins; descending to desire,<br>It wanders into dangerous paths, and leads<br>To most unholy deeds,<br>And light-struck, walks in madness toward the night.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Wrong oft-times is an over-ripened right,<br>A rank weed grown from some neglected flower,<br>The lightning uncontrolled: flames meant for joy<br>And beauty, used to ravage and destroy.<br>For sins like these repentance can atone.<br>There is one sin alone<br>Which seems all unforgivable, because<br>It springs from no temptation and no need<br>And no desire, save to make sweet faith bleed,<br>And to defame God's laws.<br>Oh! viler than the murderer or the thief<br>Who slays the body and who robs the purse,<br>Is he who strives to kill the mind's belief<br>And rob it of its hope<br>Of life beyond this little pain-filled span.<br>God has no curse<br>Quite dark enough to punish such a man,<br>Who, seeing how souls grope<br>And suffer in this world of mighty losses,<br>And how hearts stagger on beneath life's crosses,<br>Yet strives to rob them of their staff of faith<br>And make them think dark death<br>Ends all existence; think the worshipped child<br>Cold in its mother's arms is but a clod<br>And has not gone to God;<br>That souls united by love undefiled<br>And holy can by death be torn asunder<br>To meet no more.<br>It must be true that under<br>This earth of ours there lies a Purgatory<br>For those who seek to rob grief of the glory<br>That shines through hope of life immortal. In<br>Sin's lexicon this is the vilest sin-<br>Needless and cruel, ugly, gaunt and mean,<br>Without one poor excuse on which to lean,<br>A vandal sin, that with no hope of gain<br>Finds pleasure only in another's pain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>God! though all other sins on earth persist,<br>Strike dumb the blatant, loud-mouthed atheist.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ella+Wheeler+Wilcox">Ella Wheeler Wilcox</a><div class=q>
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In actions of evolving human souls
Striving to reach high goals
And falling backward into dust and mire,
Some element we find that seems to lift them
Above our condemnation-even higher
Into the realm..."></div>
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