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 But many a crime deemed innocent on earth
 Is registered in Heaven; and these no doubt
  Have read more 
 But many a crime deemed innocent on earth
 Is registered in Heaven; and these no doubt
  Have each their record, with a curse annex'd. 
 There's not a crime
 But takes its proper change out still in crime
  If once rung on read more 
 There's not a crime
 But takes its proper change out still in crime
  If once rung on the counter of this world. 
 It is worse that a crime, it is a blunder.
 [Fr., C'est plus qu'un crime, c'est une faute.]  
 It is worse that a crime, it is a blunder.
 [Fr., C'est plus qu'un crime, c'est une faute.] 
Every crime destroys more Edens than our own.
Every crime destroys more Edens than our own.
He who profits by a crime commits it
He who profits by a crime commits it
He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
Whoever profits by the crime is guilty of it.
Whoever profits by the crime is guilty of it.
 The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who 
lays the plot.
 [It., Il read more 
 The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who 
lays the plot.
 [It., Il reo
  D'un delitto e chi'l pensa: a chi l' ordisce
   La pena spetta.] 
The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibility for ourselves and read more
The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibility for ourselves and an over-indulgence to our own desires