…guilt is a rope that wears thin...
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Part Three / Chapter 4Ayn Rand
The robe of flesh wears thin, and with the years God shines through all things.
John Buchan
When a miner looks at the rope that is to lower him into the deep mine, he may coolly say, "I have faith in that rope as well made and strong." But when he lays hold of it, and swings down by it into the tremendous chasm, then he is believing on the rope. Then he is trusting himself to the rope. It is not a mere opinion — it is an act. The miner lets go of every thing else, and bears his whole weight on those well braided strands of hemp. Now that is faith.
Theodore L. Cuyler
I was seized with a guilt that I knew would never leave me, and I knew I didn't deserve to be free of it. I hadn't quite reached the end of my rope, but I was close enough.
Clarence Thomas
Many have been led astray by the Qur'an:
by clinging to that rope many have fallen into the well.
There is no fault in the rope, O perverse man,
for it was you who had no desire to reach the top.Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi
A man is like a rope: both break at a definite strain....The solution is not splicing the rope; it’s lessening the tension.
Jack Vance
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