"One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt."
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"But who would dare condemn me in this world with no judges, where no one is innocent!"
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"A heavy guilt rests upon us for what the whites of all nations have done to the colored peoples. When we do good to them, it is not benevolence--it is atonement."
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"There is no grace: there is no guilt: This is the Law: DO WHAT THOU WILT!"
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"Guilt is the one burden human beings can't bear alone."
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"The Constitution does not trust judges to make determinations of criminal guilt."
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"We are on strike against the doctrine that life is guilt."
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"Those who grant sympathy to guilt, grant none to innocence."
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"Virtue will catch as well as vice by contact; and the public stock of honest manly principle will daily accumulate. We are not too nicely to scrutinize motives as long as action is irreproachable. It is enough (and for a worthy man perhaps too much) to deal out its infamy to convicted guilt and declared apostasy."
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"God hath yoked to guilt her pale tormentor,--misery."
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"Emotional occasions, especially violent ones, are extremely potent in precipitating mental rearrangements. The sudden and explosive ways in which love, jealousy, guilt, fear, remorse, or anger can seize upon one are known to everybody. . . . And emotions that come in this explosive way seldom leave things as they found them."
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"My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent."
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"We make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were villians by compulsion."
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"Guiltiness will speak, though tongues were out of use"
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"There is scarcely anything more important in the government of men than the exact - I will ever say pedantic - observance of the regular forms by which the guilt or innocence of accused persons is determined."
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"Fear naturally quickens the flight of guilt."
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"Rash oaths, whether kept or broken, frequently produce guilt."
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"Guilt has always its horrors and solicitudes; and, to make it yet more shameful and detestable, it is doomed often to stand in awe of those to whom nothing could give influence or weight but their power of betraying."
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"Guilt was the grease in which the wheels of the authority turned."
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"Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself; for every guilty person is his own hangman."
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