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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!
Sir Walter Scott
Quotes , 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.]
Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Quotes , Source: Hercules Oetoeus (886)
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And then it started, like a guilty thing
Upon a fearful summons.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , 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!
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: Much Ado About Nothing (Leonato at IV, i)
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Let guilty men remember, their black deeds
Do lean on crutches made of slender reeds.
John Webster
Quotes , Source: The White Devil; or, Vittoria Corombona (act V, sc. 6)
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A land of levity is a land of guilt.
Edward Young
Quotes , 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.
Dr. Albert Ellis
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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.
Charles James Fox
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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.
Thomas Jefferson
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Guilt is the source of sorrows, the avenging fiend that follows us behind with whips and stings.
Nicholas Rowe
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Action and care will in time wear down the strongest frame, but guilt and melancholy are poisons of quick dispatch.
Thomas Paine
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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.
Johann Von Schiller
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