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    A tardy vengeance shares the tyrant's guilt.

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    Being natural and matter-of-fact about nudity prevents your children from developing an attitude of shame and guilt about the human body.

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    A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased

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    Being raised Catholic myself, I think people who are Catholic tend to carry a lot of guilt. It's almost a joke.

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    Beside one deed of guilt, how blest is guiltless woe!

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    A wicked conscience mouldeth goblins swift as frenzy thoughts.

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    A villain who shares one's guilt is inevitably more attractive than a hero convinced of one's innocence.

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    Be this thy brazen bulwark, to keep a clear conscience, and never turn pale with guilt.

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    By justification we are saved from the guilt of sin…by sanctification we are saved from the power and root of sin

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    Besides the guilt of sin and the power of sin, there is the stain of sin.

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    By right, as the word is employed in this subject, has always been understood discretion, that is, a full and complete power of either doing a thing or omitting it, without the person's becoming liable to animadversion or censure from another, that is, in other words, without his incurring any degree of turpitude or guilt. Now in this sense I affirm that man has no rights, no discretionary power whatever.

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    By the laws of rectitude accused Persons, however atrocious their offences, are allowed to make their defence, and by a verdict of a Jury of their Peers, they are either convicted, or acquitted. I have some times thought that we Women are hardly dealt by since strictly speaking, we cannot legally be tried by our Peers, for men are not our Peers, and yet upon their breath our guilt or innocence depends— thus are our privileges in this, as in many other respects tyrannically abridged, and we are forced to yield to necessity.

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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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    By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

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    Canon law itself says for one case of guilt, a priest can be dismissed from the clerical state. One.

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    Catholic and Jew - it's very closely related, a lot of holidays, a lot of guilt, a lot of the same things going on.

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    Catholics have guilt and Jews have guilt, fine. But mothers can trump them all.

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    Climbing the economic ladder has been very hard for me; I still feel a great deal of guilt towards those I left behind.

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    Cheap thrill: moral outrage revels in its own innocence and in the guilt of the wicked Others.

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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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    Conditioned Awareness is where we live our lives in guilt over the past and anxiety over the future and never get to experience the present.

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    Conscious virtue is the only solid foundation of all happiness; for riches, power, rank, or whatever, in the common acceptation ofthe word, is supposed to constitute happiness, will never quiet, much less cure, the inward pangs 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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    Cruel with guilt, and daring with despair, the midnight murderer bursts the faithless bar; invades the sacred hour of silent rest and leaves, unseen, a dagger in your breast.

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    Collective guilt is borne by what is conventionally called the scapegoat. Now the scapegoat for white society - which is based on myths of progress, civilization, liberalism, education, enlightenment, refinement - will be precisely the force that opposes the expansion and the triumph of these myths. This brutal opposing force is supplied by the Negro.

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    Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.

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    Did we risk our lives to defend a just society, where guilt must be proven and not assumed? Or are we no better than the oppressive kings from whom our fathers fled?

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    Don't bother trying to guilt me. Ask my other. It doesn't work.

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    Don’t nurture a sense of guilt; rather, nurture a sense of responsibility married with a sense of humility.

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    Don't medicate dysfunction with spending. No amount of stuff will get rid of guilt.

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    Each snowflake in an avalanche pleads not guilty.

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    Control cannot be called conscience until we are able to take it inside us and make it our own, until--in spite of the fact that the wrongs we have done or imagined will never be punished or known--we nonetheless feel that the clutch in the stomach, that chill upon the soul, that self-inflicted misery called guilt.

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    Don't take guilt trips. Take a trip to the mall, to the next county, to a foreign country, but NOT to where the guilt is.

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    Duty or guilt may motivate us for awhile, but only a sense of Christ's love for us will motivate us for a lifetime.

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    Each one of them suffering from the failures of their day, with strings of guilt they tried hard to guide us.

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    Don't saddle me with your ideals, and spare me all your guilt. For a poet with all the answers, has never yet been built.

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    Each of us when he appears before his fellows is clothed in a certain dignity. But every man knows what unconfessable things pass within the secrecy of his own heart.

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    Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

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    Every guilty person is his own hangman.

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    ...every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.

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    Every soul confined in a prison of sin, guilt, or perversion has a key to the gate. The key is labeled “repentance.” If you know how to use this key, the adversary cannot hold you.

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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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    Emotions like guilt and shame cut you off from web of existence and that causes inflammation in the body. I would recommend that you go to a level of awareness where you can be an observer of your thoughts and emotions and use mindfulness.

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    Every time I act on a fear, I feel disappointed in myself. I have a lot of fear. If I can quit all fear in my life and all guilt, then I tend to be much, much more living up to my standards. I've never seen a person fail if they didn't fear failure.

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    Everything can be brought to the extreme. Food is good, overeating is bad. Possessions are good, hoarding is bad. Guilt is good, obsessing about guilt is bad. But I think guilt is good because I'm like, "Hey, I just stabbed that guy and I feel pretty good.

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    Every vice makes its guilt the more conspicuous in proportion to the rank of the offender. [Lat., Omne animi vitium tanto conspectius in se Crimen habet, quanto major qui peccat habetur.]

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    Every woman while she would be ready to die of shame if surprised in the act of generation, nonetheless carries her pregnancy without a trace of shame and indeed with a kind of pride. The reason is that pregnancy is in a certain sense a cancellation of the guilt incurred by coitus; thus coitus bears all the shame and disgrace of the affair, while pregnancy, which is so intimately associated with it, stays pure and innocent and is indeed to some extent sacred.

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    Every working mom I know is constantly walking some kind of a tightrope of guilt.

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    Fancy that thou deservest to be hangedthou wilt feel it happiness to be only shot: fancy that thou deservest to be hanged ina hair halter, it will be a luxury to die in hemp.

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    Family and work. Family and work. I can let them be at war, with guilt as their nuclear weapon and mutually assured destruction as their aim, or I can let them nourish each other.