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346 GUILT

Exemplo quodcumque malo committitur, ipsi
Disphcet auctori. Prima est haec ultio, quod se
Judice nemo nocens absolvitur.
Whatever guilt is perpetrated by some evil prompting, is grievous to the author of the crime. This is the first punishment of guilt that no one who is guilty is acquitted at the judgment seat of his own conscience.
Juvenal—Satires. XIII. 1.

Ingenia humana sunt ad suam cuique levandam culpam nimio plus facunda.
Men's minds are too ingenious in palliating
guilt in themselves.
Livy—Annates. XXVIII. 25.


Facinus quos inquinat sequat.
Those whom guilt stains it equals.
Lucan—Pharsalia. V. 290.


Nulla manus belli, mutato judice, pura est.
Neither side is guiltless if its adversary is
appointed judge.
Lucan—Pharsalia. VII. 263.


These false pretexts and varnished colours failing,
Rare in thy guilt how foul must thou appear.
Mii/ton—Samson Agonistes. L. 901.


Heu! quam difficile est crimen non prodere
vultu.
Alas! how difficult it is to prevent the countenance from betraying guilt.
Ovid—Metamorphoses. II. 447.


Dum ne ob male facta peream, parvi aestimo.
I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt.
Plautus—Captivi. III. 5. 24.
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 | text = Nihil est miserius quam animus hominis consents.
Nothing is more wretched than the mind of
a man conscious of guilt.
Plautus—Mostellaria. Act III. 1. 13.
HABIT
How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!
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 | work = Eloisa to Abelard. L. 230.
 Haste, holy Friar,
Haste, ere the sinner shall expire!
Of all his guilt let him be shriven,
And smooth his path from earth to heaven!
Scott—Lay of the Last Minstrel. Canto V.
St. 22.


Haud est nocens, quicumque non sponte est
nocens.
He is not guilty who is not guilty of his own
free will.
Seneca—Hercules (Etanis. 886.
 Multa trepidus solet
Detegere vultus.
The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
Seneca—Thyestes. CCCXXX.


And then it started like a guilty thing
Upon a fearful summons.
Hamlet. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 148.
 O, she is fallen
Into a pit of ink, that the wide sea
Hath drops too few to wash her clean again.
Much Ado About Nothing. Act IV. Sc. 1.
L. 141.


Fatetur facinus is qui judicium fugit.
He who flees from trial confesses his guilt.
Strus—Maxims.
Let guilty men remember, their black deeds
Do lean on crutches made of slender reeds.
John Webstbk—The White Devil; or, Vittoria
Corombona. Act V. Sc. 6.
A land of levity is a land of guilt.
Yottng—Night Thoughts. Night VII.
PrefHABIT
is A civil habit
Oft covers a good man.
 | author = Beaumont and Fletcher
 | work = Beggar's Bush.
Act II. Sc. 3. L. 210.
Consuetudo quasi altera natura effici.
Habit is, as it were, a second nature.
Cicero—De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum. V.
25. Tmculanarum Disputationum. II. 17.
Habit with him was all the test of truth;
"It must be right: I've done it from
youth."
Chabiie—The Borough. Letter III.
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We sow our thoughts, and we reap our actions;
we sow our actions, and we reap our habits; we
sow our habits, and we reap our characters; we
sow our characters, and we reap our destiny.
C. A. Hall.
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 | text = <poem>Clavus clavo pellitur, consuetudo consuetudine vincitur.
A nail is driven out by another nail, habit is
overcome by habit.
Erasmus—Diluculum.
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 | text = <poem>A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected.
 | author = Samuel Johnson
 | work = Rasselas. Ch. XII.


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| text = <poem>Habits form character and character is destiny. 

Joseph Katnes—Address. Oct. 21, 1883. Our Daily Faults and Failings.

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