Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

Behold, I am become a reproach to thy holy name, by serving any ambition and the sins of others; which though I did by the persuasion of other men, yet my own conscience did cheek and upbraid me in it.

The Anglo-Saxon conscience does not prevent the Anglo-Saxon from sinning, it merely prevents him from enjoying his sin.

The tempter or the tempted, who sins most?

Guilt is a spiritual Rubicon.

The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.

Guilt once harbored in the conscious breast, intimidates the brave, degrades the great.

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

If anyone has a conscience it's generally a guilty one.

We feel guilty for what we do. We feel shame for what we are.

Fears of sinning let in thoughts of sin.

Sister, I won't ask for forgiveness, my sins are all I have.

My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain. Perjury, perjury, in the high'st degree; Murder, stern murder in the dir'st degree, Throng to the bar, crying all, 'Guilty!, guilty!

A guilty conscience means at least you have one.

Whoever despiseth shame, despiseth sin.

The urging of that word, judgment, hath bred a kind of remorse in me.

The heaviest burden that one has to bear in this life is the burden of sin.

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

Where does guilt and punishment lie, and are we not more expressive over remorse or guilt when other people see the badness in us?

To have guilt you've got to earn guilt, but sometimes when you earn it, you don't feel the guilt you ought to have. And that's what The Firebombing is about.

There is nothing you can do to assuage your conscience when you commit sins. Crime is a spiritual assault on the soul.

Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.

A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do - but it does not keep him from doing it.

What is guilt? Guilt is the pledge drive constantly hammering in our heads that keeps us from fully enjoying the show. Guilt is the reason they put the articles in Playboy.

I'm not proud of killing, of being responsible for the death of a single person. I never will be.