"The fearful face usually betrays great guilt."
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"In darkness one may be ashamed of what one does, without the shame of disgrace."
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"Confession of one's guilt purifies and uplifts. Its suppression is degrading and should always be avoided."
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"Forbear to lay the guilt of a few on the many."
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"Alas! how difficult it is not to betray one's guilt by one's looks."
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"By the sympathy of your human hearts for sin ye shall scent out all the places whether in church, bedchamber, street, field, or forest where crime has been committed, and shall exult to behold the whole earth one stain of guilt, one mighty blood spot."
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"The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed."
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"Guilt is present in the very hesitation, even though the deed be not committed."
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"The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity."
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"I'm tired of hearing about innocent victims. It's fiction, If you live on this planet you're guilty, period, f*** you, next case, end of report. Your birth certificate is proof of guilt."
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"The state we find ourselves in is sinful quite independent of guilt."
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"In sinning, each man sins against all, and each man is at least partly guilt for another's sin. There is no isolated sin."
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"That deed which in our guilt we today call weakness, will appear tomorrow as an essential link in the complete chain of Man."
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"Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can, impatient to restore everybody not greatly in fault themselves to tolerable comfort, and to have done with all the rest."
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"Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame."
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"Every man bears something within him that, if it were publicly announced, would excite feelings of aversion."
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"Nothing more unqualified the man to act with prudence than a misfortune that is attended with shame and guilt."
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"Surely in Judas' betrayal it will be no more right, because God both willed that his Son be delivered up, and delivered him up to death, to ascribe the guilt of the crime to God than to transfer the credit for redemption to Judas."
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"Ah! it is well for the unfortunate to be resigned, but for the guilty there is no peace."
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"The purpose of guilt is to bring us to the Lord, after that it has no purpose."
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