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• There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontent. And there is no greater disaster than greed.

  Laozi

  Money, Greed, Desire

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• Forbear to lay the guilt of a few on the many.

  Ovid

  Lays

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• Guilt is a spiritual Rubicon.

  Jane Porter

  Spiritual

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.19

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• Monsters, among other brutes, are the ones without guilt feelings. Perhaps Hitler did not have any, or Himmler, or Stalin. Maybe Mafia bosses do not have any guilt feelings either, or maybe their remains are just well hidden in the cellar. Even aborted guilt feelings...All men need guilt feelings.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Men, Boss, Feelings

  Pope Benedict XVI (2006). “On conscience: two essays”, Natl Catholic Bioethics Center

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• My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent.

  William Shakespeare

  Strong, Stronger, Defeat

  William Shakespeare (1733). “The Works of Shakespeare in Seven Volumes”, p.308

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• This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.

  Juvenal

  Heart, Men, Firsts

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• No amount of guilt can change the past and no amount of worrying can change the future

  Umar

  Past, Worry, Amount

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• Guilt is anger directed at ourselves.

  Peter McWilliams

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Life 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned about Life in School--but Didn't”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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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.

  Samuel Johnson

  Giving, Weight, Horror

  Samuel Johnson (1827). “The Rambler”, p.90

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• One fault begets another; one crime renders another necessary.

  Robert Southey

  Faults, Crime, Begets

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• It is not a gain that guilt should be wholly forgotten. On the contrary, it is loss and perdition. But it is a gain to win an inner intensity of heart through a deeper and deeper inner sorrowing over guilt.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Heart, Loss, Winning

  Soren Kierkegaard (2013). “Purity of Heart is to Will One Thing”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• All good men and women should be on their guard to avoid guilt, and even the suspicion of it.

  Plautus

  Men, Good Man, Should

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• My hands are guilty, but my heart is free.

  John Dryden

  Heart, Hands, Guilty

  John Dryden, C. B., Esquire Charles BATHURST (1852). “Selections from the poetry of Dryden, including his plays and translations. [The editor's preface signed: C. B., i.e. Charles Bathurst.]”, p.94

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• Guiltiness will speak, though tongues were out of use

  William Shakespeare

  Use, Tongue, Speak

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, George Steevens, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson (1809). “Cymbeline. Othello”, p.397

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• Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.

  Veronica Roth

  Sad, Grief, Sorrow

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• The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Shame, Incitement, Impunity

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• Guilt is always jealous

  John Ray

  Jealousy, Jealous

  John Ray, John Belfour (1813). “A complete collection of English proverbs: also, the most celebrated proverbs of the Scotch, Italian, French, Spanish, and other languages”, p.118

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• Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong

  Tryon Edwards

  Forgiveness, Responsibility, Done

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.1173, Ravenio Books

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• Every man bears something within him that, if it were publicly announced, would excite feelings of aversion.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Feelings, Aversion

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• Our sins, like to our shadows, when our day was in its glory, scarce appeared; toward our evening, how great and monstrous!

  John Suckling

  Shadow, Evening, Sin

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• Guilt was never a rational thing; it distorts all the faculties of the human mind, it perverts them, it leaves a man no longer in the free use of his reason, it puts him into confusion.

  Edmund Burke

  Men, Confusion, Mind

  William Pitt (Earl of Chatham), Edmund Burke, Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine, Jean Gabriel Peltier (1834). “Celebrated Speeches of Chatham, Burke, and Erskine: To which is Added the Arguement of Mr. Mackintosh in the Case of Peltier”, p.298

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• Isolating, shutting down, and feeling guilt about pain makes it linger so much longer. Reconnecting, trusting, and being open and honest is really the only cure. Reaching out and talking to loved ones and friends is a must.

  Jaime Murray

  Pain, Talking, Feelings

  "Jaime Murray: Taking Care of Heart, Mind, and Body". Interview with Maranda Pleasant,

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• On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.

  Aldous Huxley

  Brave New World, Rolling, Way

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house.

  Aeschylus

  House, Demise, Want

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• When we played softball, I'd steal second base, feel guilty and go back.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Softball, Baseball

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