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Men's minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.
 share this Guilt saying   Livy

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 share this Guilt saying   President Jimmy Carter

Guilt is universal.

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.

The difference between guilt and shame is very clearóin theory. We feel guilty for what we do. We feel shame for what we are.
 share this Guilt saying   LEWIS B. SMEDES

He who helps the guilty, shares the crime.

We each begin in innocence. We all become guilty.
 share this Guilt saying   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.

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

Beside one deed of guilt, how blest is guiltless woe!
 share this Guilt saying   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

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.
 share this Guilt saying   Lord Byron

The ghostly consciousness of wrong.

Wickedness consists in the very hesitation about an act, even though it be not perpetrated.
 share this Guilt saying   Cicero

Guilt is present in the very hesitation, even though the deed be not committed.
 share this Guilt saying   Cicero

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

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

He that commits a sin shall find the pressing guilt lie heavy on his mind.
 share this Guilt saying   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.
 share this Guilt saying   Richard Henry Dana, Sr.

My hands are guilty, but my heart is free.

Thoughts cannot form themselves in words so horrid As can express my guilt.

Fraud and falsehood are his weak and treacherous allies; and he lurks trembling in the dark, dreading every ray of light, lest it should discover him, and give him up to shame and punishment.

Fraud and falsehood are his weak and treacherous allies; and he lurks trembling in the dark, dreading every ray of light, lest it should discover him, and give him up to shame and punishment.

Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.

Every man bears something within him that, if it were publicly announced, would excite feelings of aversion.

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