"Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt."
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"To see helpless infancy stretching out her hands, and pouring out her cries in testimony of dependence, without any powers to alarm jealousy, or any guilt to alienate affection, must surely awaken tenderness in every human mind; and tenderness once excited will be hourly increased by the natural contagion of felicity, by the repercussion of communicated pleasure, by the consciousness of dignity of benefaction."
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"Whoever thou art, whatever in other respects thy life may be, my friend, by ceasing to take part (if ordinarily thou doest) in the public worship of God, as it now is (with the claim that it is the Christianity of the New Testament), thou hast constantly one guilt the less, and that a great one: thou dost not take part in treating God as a fool by calling that the Christianity of the New Testament which is not the Christianity of the New Testament."
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"When the mind is free of fear, guilt, anger and is more centered, then it holds the power to heal any ailment."
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"Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt."
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"It is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent"
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"It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent."
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"Alas! How difficult it is to prevent the countenance from betraying guilt!"
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"Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge."
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"The three most harmful negative emotions are anger, guilt, and fear. And anger is number one. It is also the strongest and most dangerous of all passions."
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"No disease of the imagination is so difficult to cure, as that which is complicated with the dread of guilt : fancy and conscience then act interchangeably upon us, and so often shift their places, that the illusions of one are not distinguished from the dictates of the other."
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"Villains!' I shrieked. 'Dissemble no more! I admit the deed! Tear up the planks! Here, here! It is the beating of his hideous heart!"
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"He that's ungrateful has no guilt but one; All other crimes may pass for virtues in him."
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"I do not believe in collective guilt."
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"A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house."
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"We all feel the urge to condemn ourselves out of guilt, to blame others for our misfortunes and to fantasize about total disaster."
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"What is guilt? Guilt is the pledge drive constantly hammering in our heads that keeps us from fully enjoying the show. Guilt is the reason they put the articles in Playboy."
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"Guilt is the reason they put the articles in Playboy."
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"Men the most infamous are fond of fame, And those who fear not guilt yet start at shame."
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"Guilt: I'm sorry. I made a mistake. Shame: I'm sorry. I am a mistake."
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