Guilt is abscent when the act is justified.

Guilt is abscent when the act is justified.

Action and care will in time wear down the strongest frame, but guilt and melancholy are poisons of quick dispatch.

Action and care will in time wear down the strongest frame, but guilt and melancholy are poisons of quick dispatch.

How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!

How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!

Alas! How difficult it is to prevent the countenance from
betraying guilt!
[Heu! quam difficile est crimen non read more

Alas! How difficult it is to prevent the countenance from
betraying guilt!
[Heu! quam difficile est crimen non prodere vultu.]

Guilt is anger directed at ourselves.

Guilt is anger directed at ourselves.

But mine, and mine I loved, and mine I praised,
And mine that I was proud on--mine so much
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But mine, and mine I loved, and mine I praised,
And mine that I was proud on--mine so much
That I myself was to myself not mine,
Valuing of her--why she, O, she is fall'n
Into a pit of ink, that the wide sea
Hath drops too few to wash her clean again,
And salt too little which may season give
To her foul tainted flesh!

Let guilty men remember, their black deeds
Do lean on crutches made of slender reeds.

Let guilty men remember, their black deeds
Do lean on crutches made of slender reeds.

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

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

Guilt is present in the very hesitation, even though the deed be
not committed.
[Lat., In ipsa dubitatione read more

Guilt is present in the very hesitation, even though the deed be
not committed.
[Lat., In ipsa dubitatione facinus inest, etiamsi ad id non
pervererint.]