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    It is base to filch a purse, daring to embezzle a million, but it is great beyond measure to steal a crown. The sin lessens as the guilt increases.

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One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.

One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.

by Martin Luther King, Jr. Found in: Guilt Quotes,
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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.

by Ben Jonson Found in: Guilt Quotes,
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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.]

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How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!

How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!

by Alexander Pope Found in: Guilt Quotes,
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Guilt is always jealous

Guilt is always jealous

by John Ray Found in: Guilt Quotes,
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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.

by John Webster Found in: Guilt Quotes,
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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.]

by Titus Livy Found in: Guilt Quotes,
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He is not guilty who is not guilty of his own free will.
[Lat., Haud est nocens, quicumque non read more

He is not guilty who is not guilty of his own free will.
[Lat., Haud est nocens, quicumque non sponte est nocens.]

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Jews don't go to confession. They don't want to relieve the guilt.
screenwriter of FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME.

Jews don't go to confession. They don't want to relieve the guilt.
screenwriter of FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME.

by Unknown Found in: Guilt Quotes,
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