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Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
Optimism
Jane Austen

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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.
Power
Roland Barthes

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It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer
Suffering
Sir William Blackstone

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He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.
Death and Dying
Elias Canetti

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One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty.
Innocence
Sir Edward Coke

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The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.
Fathers
Confucius

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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
Glory
William Cowper

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My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
Judgment and Judges
Franz Kafka

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Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.
Bereavement
Elisabeth KuBler-Ross

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If you commit a crime, you're guilty.
Guilt
Rush Limbaugh

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Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.
Knowledge
Henry Miller

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Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.
Saints
George Orwell

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Forbear to lay the guilt of a few on the many.
Guilt
Ovid

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To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.
Virtue
William Penn

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He declares himself guilty who justifies himself before accusation.
Uncategorised
Proverb

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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.
Work, Hard
Jim Rohn

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Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame.
Guilt
Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Guilt is the source of sorrows, the avenging fiend that follows us behind with whips and stings.
Guilt
Nicholas Rowe

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Life without industry is guilt. Industry without Art is Brutality.
Guilt
John Ruskin

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Every guilty person is his own hangman.
Punishment
Seneca

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Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; the thief doth fear each bush an officer.
Guilt
William Shakespeare

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The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one; or both. Usually both.
Writers and Writing
Susan Sontag

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I would rather be guilty of talking over a person's head than behind his back.
Speakers and Speaking
Adlai E. Stevenson

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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.
Law and Lawyers
Publilius Syrus

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Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
Guilt
Publius Cornelius Tacitus

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