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~ Beside one deed of guilt, how blest is guiltless woe! ~
~ 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. ~
~ The ghostly consciousness of wrong. ~
~ 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. ~
~ 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. ~
~ My hands are guilty, but my heart is free. ~
~ 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. ~
~ Think not that guilt requires the burning torches of the Furies to agitate and torment it. Their own frauds, their crimes, their remembrances of the past, their terrors of the future,--these are the domestic furies that are ever present to the mind of the impious. ~
~ The guilty mind debases the great image that it wears, and levels us with brutes. ~
~ Guilt has always its horrors and solicitudes; and, to make it yet more shameful and detestable, it is doomed often to stand in awe of those to whom nothing could give influence or weight but their power of betraying. ~
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