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It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he read more
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone read more
Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong
Every guilty person is his own hangman.
Every guilty person is his own hangman.
How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!
How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!
Without the spice of guilt, sin cannot be fully savored.
Without the spice of guilt, sin cannot be fully savored.
The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.
The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.
Haste, holy Friar,
Haste, ere the sinner shall expire!
Of all his guilt let him be shriven,
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Haste, holy Friar,
Haste, ere the sinner shall expire!
Of all his guilt let him be shriven,
And smooth his path from earth to heaven!
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.]
