Nothing can render affliction so insupportable as the load of sin. Would you then be fitted for afflictions? Be sure to get the burden of your sins laid aside, and then what affliction soever you may meet with will be very easy to you. – John Bunyan
Fox-terriers are born with about four times as much original sin in them as other dogs are… – Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), 1889
Let us love nobly, and live, and add again years and years unto years, till we attain to write threescore: this is the second of our reign. – John Donne