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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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“The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
[Lat., Multa trepidus solet
Detegere vultus.]”
Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) Quotes Source: Thyestes (CCCXXX)
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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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“A guilty conscience never feels secure.”
Syrus (Publilius Syrus) Quotes Source: Maxims
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“He who flees from trial confesses his guilt.
[Lat., Fatetur facinus is qui judicum fugit.]”
Syrus (Publilius Syrus) Quotes Source: Maxims
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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 Quotes |
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“Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.”
Erma Bombeck Quotes |
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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 Quotes |
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“Guilt is anything you did and fear others to know about”
Mohammad Quotes |
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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 Quotes |
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“We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter.”
Vauvenargues Quotes |
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“Guilt is the source of sorrows, the avenging fiend that follows us behind with whips and stings.”
Nicholas Rowe Quotes |
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“One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes |
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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.”
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller Quotes |
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“Without the spice of guilt, sin cannot be fully savored.”
Alexander Chase Quotes |
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“Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; the thief doth fear each bush an officer.”
William Shakespeare Quotes |
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“Guilt is always jealous.”
John Ray Quotes |
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“He who flees from trial confesses his guilt.”
Publilius Syrus Quotes |
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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 Quotes |
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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 Quotes |
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“Guilt once harbored in the conscious breast, intimidates the brave, degrades the great.”
Samuel Johnson Quotes |
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