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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

~ We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter. ~

Vauvenargues

~ One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it. ~

Martin Luther King Jr

~ Without the spice of guilt, sin cannot be fully savored. ~

Alexander Chase

~ Guilt is always jealous. ~

John Ray

~ 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

~ The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity. ~

Cicero

~ Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind. ~

William Shakespeare

~ Guilt is the source of sorrow, 'tis the fiend,Th' avenging fiend, that follows us behindWith whips and stings. ~

Nicholas Rowe

~ Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do. ~

Voltaire

~ Every guilty person is his own hangman. ~

Seneca

~ Men's minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves. ~

Livy

~ Guilt is universal. ~

Tennessee Williams

~ No acquisitions of guilt can compensate the loss of that solid inward comfort of mind, which is the sure companion of innocence and virtue; nor can in the least balance the evil of that horror and anxiety which, in their room, guilt introduces into our bosoms. ~

Henry Fielding

~ The difference between guilt and shame is very clearóin theory. We feel guilty for what we do. We feel shame for what we are. ~

LEWIS B. SMEDES

~ He who helps the guilty, shares the crime. ~

Publilius Syrus

~ Guilt is a rope that wears thin. ~

Ayn Rand,

~ We each begin in innocence. We all become guilty. ~

Leonand F. Peltier

~ Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing. ~

Hannah Arendt

~ Guilt soon learns to lie. ~

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

~ God hath yoked to guilt her pale tormentor,--misery. ~

William Cullen Bryant

~ Beside one deed of guilt, how blest is guiltless woe! ~

Edward George

~ Guilt was never a rational thing; it distorts all the faculties of the human mind, it perverts them, it leaves a man no longer in the free use of his reason, it puts him into confusion ~

Edmund Burke

~ 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. ~

Lord Byron

~ Guilt is present in the very hesitation, even though the deed be not committed. ~

Cicero

~ Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold. ~

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

~ Guilt is ever at a loss, and confusion waits upon it. ~

William Congreve

~ He that commits a sin shall find the pressing guilt lie heavy on his mind. ~

Thomas Creech

~ He swears, but he, is sick at heart; He laughs, but he turns deadly pale; His restless eye and sudden start-- These tell the dreadful tale That will be told: it needs no words from thee Thou self-sold slave to guilt and misery. ~

Richard Henry Dana, Sr.

~ My hands are guilty, but my heart is free. ~

John Dryden

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