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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.
 Whatever guilt is perpetrated by some evil prompting, is grievous 
to the author of the crime. This is the read more 
 Whatever guilt is perpetrated by some evil prompting, is grievous 
to the author of the crime. This is the first punishment of 
guilt that no one who is guilty is acquitted at the judgment seat 
of his own conscience.
 [Lat., Exemplo quodcumque malo committitur, ipsi
  Displicet auctori. Prima est haec ultio, quod se
   Judice nemo nocens absolvitur.] 
 Men's minds are too ingenious in palliating guilt in themselves.
 [Lat., Ingenia humana sunt ad suam cuique levandam culpam read more 
 Men's minds are too ingenious in palliating guilt in themselves.
 [Lat., Ingenia humana sunt ad suam cuique levandam culpam nimio 
plus facunda.] 
 The gods
 Grow angry with your patience. 'Tis their care,
  And must be yours, that guilty men read more 
 The gods
 Grow angry with your patience. 'Tis their care,
  And must be yours, that guilty men escape not:
   As crimes do grow, justice should rouse itself. 
 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! 
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
 Those who guilt stains it equals.
 [Lat., Facinus quos inquinat aequat.]  
 Those who guilt stains it equals.
 [Lat., Facinus quos inquinat aequat.] 
Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do.
Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do.