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However boldly their warm blood was spilt,
Their life was shame, their epitaph was guilt;
And this they knew and felt, at least the one,
The leader of the hand he had undone,--
Who, born for better things, had madly set
His life upon a cast, which linger'd yet.
Author:
Source: None
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Guilt is present in the very hesitation, even though the deed be
not committed.
[Lat., In ipsa dubitatione facinus inest, etiamsi ad id non
pervererint.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: De Officiis (III, 8)
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Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided. No personal
consideration should stand in the way of performing a public
duty.
Author: Ulysses Simpson Grant
Source: indorsement of a letter relating to the Whiskey Ring
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What we call real estate--the solid ground to build a house
on--is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this
world rests.
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Source: The House of Seven Gables--The Flight of Two Owls
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How guilt once harbour'd in the conscious breast,
Intimidates the brave, degrades the great.
Author: Samuel Johnson
Source: Irene (act IV, sc, 8)
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The gods
Grow angry with your patience. 'Tis their care,
And must be yours, that guilty men escape not:
As crimes do grow, justice should rouse itself.
Author: Ben Jonson
Source: Catiline (act III, sc. 5)
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Whatever guilt is perpetrated by some evil prompting, is grievous
to the author of the crime. This is the first punishment of
guilt that no one who is guilty is acquitted at the judgment seat
of his own conscience.
[Lat., Exemplo quodcumque malo committitur, ipsi
Displicet auctori. Prima est haec ultio, quod se
Judice nemo nocens absolvitur.]
Author: Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal)
Source: Satires (XIII, 1)
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Men's minds are too ingenious in palliating guilt in themselves.
[Lat., Ingenia humana sunt ad suam cuique levandam culpam nimio
plus facunda.]
Author: Titus Livy
Source: Annales (XXVIII, 25)
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Those who guilt stains it equals.
[Lat., Facinus quos inquinat aequat.]
Author: Lucanus (Marcus Annaeus Lucan)
Source: Pharsalia (V, 290)
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Neither side is guiltless if its adversary is appointed judge.
[Lat., Nulla manus belli, mutato judice, pura est.]
Author: Lucanus (Marcus Annaeus Lucan)
Source: Pharsalia (VII, 263)
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These false pretexts and varnished colours failing,
Rare in thy guilt how foul must thou appear.
Author: John Milton
Source: Samson Agonistes (l. 901)
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Alas! How difficult it is to prevent the countenance from
betraying guilt!
[Heu! quam difficile est crimen non prodere vultu.]
Author: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
Source: Metamorphoses (II, 447)
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I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt.
[Lat., Dum ne ob male facta peream, parvi aestimo.]
Author: Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Source: Captivi (III, 5, 24)
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Nothing is more wretched that the mind of a man conscious of
guilt.
[Lat., Nihil est miserius quam animus hominis conscius.]
Author: Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Source: Mostellaria (act III, 1, 13)
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How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Eloisa to Abelard (l. 230)
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Haste, holy Friar,
Haste, ere the sinner shall expire!
Of all his guilt let him be shriven,
And smooth his path from earth to heaven!
Author: Sir Walter Scott
Source: The Lay of the Last Minstrel (canto V, st. 22)
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He is not guilty who is not guilty of his own free will.
[Lat., Haud est nocens, quicumque non sponte est nocens.]
Author: Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Source: Hercules Oetoeus (886)
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The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
[Lat., Multa trepidus solet
Detegere vultus.]
Author: Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Source: Thyestes (CCCXXX)
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And then it started, like a guilty thing
Upon a fearful summons.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Horatio at I, i)
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But mine, and mine I loved, and mine I praised,
And mine that I was proud on--mine so much
That I myself was to myself not mine,
Valuing of her--why she, O, she is fall'n
Into a pit of ink, that the wide sea
Hath drops too few to wash her clean again,
And salt too little which may season give
To her foul tainted flesh!
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Much Ado About Nothing (Leonato at IV, i)
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A guilty conscience never feels secure.
Author: Syrus (Publilius Syrus)
Source: Maxims
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He who flees from trial confesses his guilt.
[Lat., Fatetur facinus is qui judicum fugit.]
Author: Syrus (Publilius Syrus)
Source: Maxims
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Let guilty men remember, their black deeds
Do lean on crutches made of slender reeds.
Author: John Webster
Source: The White Devil; or, Vittoria Corombona (act V, sc. 6)
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A land of levity is a land of guilt.
Author: Edward Young
Source: Night Thoughts (night VII, preface)
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The more sinful and guilty a person tends to feel, the less chance there is that he will be a happy, healthy, or law-abiding citizen. He will become a compulsive wrong-doer.
Author: Dr. Albert Ellis
Source: None
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Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.
Author: Erma Bombeck
Source: None
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He that is conscious of guilt cannot bear the innocence of others: So they will try to reduce all others to their own level.
Author: Charles James Fox
Source: None
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Guilt is anything you did and fear others to know about
Author: Mohammad
Source: None
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It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
Author: Thomas Jefferson
Source: None
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We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter.
Author: Vauvenargues
Source: None
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Guilt is the source of sorrows, the avenging fiend that follows us behind with whips and stings.
Author: Nicholas Rowe
Source: None
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One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
Source: None
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It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.
Author: Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
Source: None
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Without the spice of guilt, sin cannot be fully savored.
Author: Alexander Chase
Source: None
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Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; the thief doth fear each bush an officer.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: None
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Guilt is always jealous.
Author: John Ray
Source: None
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He who flees from trial confesses his guilt.
Author: Publilius Syrus
Source: None
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Action and care will in time wear down the strongest frame, but guilt and melancholy are poisons of quick dispatch.
Author: Thomas Paine
Source: None
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It is base to filch a purse, daring to embezzle a million, but it is great beyond measure to steal a crown. The sin lessens as the guilt increases.
Author: Johann Von Schiller
Source: None
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Guilt once harbored in the conscious breast, intimidates the brave, degrades the great.
Author: Samuel Johnson
Source: None
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From the body of one guilty deed a thousand ghostly fears and haunting thoughts proceed.
Author: William Wordsworth
Source: None
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The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity.
Author: Cicero
Source: None
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The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot.
Author: Conte Vittorio Alfieri
Source: None
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Those who start war often know that because of their
high political position their own lives will not be in
danger.
on the Diane Rehm Show.
Author: President Jimmy Carter
Source: None
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Jews don't go to confession. They don't want to relieve the guilt.
screenwriter of FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME.
Author: Unknown
Source: None
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Men's minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.
Author: Livy
Source: None
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Every guilty person is his own hangman.
Author: Seneca
Source: None
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Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: None
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Guilt is the source of sorrow, 'tis the fiend,Th' avenging fiend, that follows us behindWith whips and stings.
Author: Nicholas Rowe
Source: None
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Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do.
Author: Voltaire
Source: None
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