Our sins, like to our shadows, when our day was in its glory, scarce appeared; toward our evening, how great and monstrous!
It is easy to defend the innocent; but who is eloquent enough to defend the guilty?
Let guilty men remember, their black deeds
Do lean on crutches made of slender reeds.
Let no man trust the first false step of guilt; it hangs upon a precipice, whose steep descent in last perdition ends.
Where, where for shelter shall the guilty fly,
When consternation turns the good man pale?
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.
He that is conscious of guilt cannot bear the innocence of others: So they will try to reduce all others to their own level.
Guilt is anything you did and fear others to know about
It is more dangerous that even a guilty
person should be punished without the
forms of law than that he should escape.
We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter.
Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame.
Guilt is the source of sorrows,
the avenging fiend that follows
us behind with whips and stings.
Without the spice of guilt,
sin cannot be fully savored.
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind;
the thief doth fear each bush an officer.
Guilt, on the contrary, like a base thief, suspects every eye that beholds him to be privy to his transgressions, and every tongue that mentions his name to be proclaiming them.
Guilt hath very quick ears to an accusation.
If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends
Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.
I am having so much fun performing, I feel almost guilty. I think, my God, I hope no one comes and busts me for this.
Life without industry is guilt. Industry without Art is Brutality.
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.
It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution
Guilt is abscent when the act is justified
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