General Absolution

Famous quotes containing the words general and/or absolution:

“The reputation of generosity is to be purchased pretty cheap; it does not depend so much upon a man’s general expense, as it does upon his giving handsomely where it is proper to give at all. A man, for instance, who should give a servant four shillings, would pass for covetous, while he who gave him a crown, would be reckoned generous; so that the difference of those two opposite characters, turns upon one shilling.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

“Forgive! How many will say, “forgive,” and find
A sort of absolution in the sound
To hate a little longer!”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)