"Guilty conscience" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... given therunto. | | 30. Of the naturall actions altered | by melancholie. | | 31. How melancholie altereth | Symptomes of melancholy the naturall workes of the body: | abounding in the whole body. juice and excrement. | | 32. Of the affliction of conscience | Guilty conscience for offence for sinne. | committed. | 33. Whether the afflicted conscience | be of melancholie. | | 34. The particular difference betwixt | How melancholy and despair melancholie and the afflicted | differ. conscience in the same | person. | | 35. The affliction of mind: to | Passions and perturbations ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 227, March 4, 1854 • Various
... red-blooded fellow who is feeling the thrill of accomplishing something. Our Lord is sorry for those who are "heavy laden" while they work—laden with worry, with anxiety, with fears and forebodings—yes, even with a guilty conscience. ...
— "Say Fellows--" - Fifty Practical Talks with Boys on Life's Big Issues • Wade C. Smith
... feeling that in return for your constant and tireless efforts to secure our bodily comfort and make our visit enjoyable, I had basely repaid you by making you sad and sore-hearted and leaving you so. And the natural result has fallen to me likewise—for a guilty conscience has harassed me ever since, and I have not had one short quarter of an hour of peace to ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
... and Mr. Townsend's pipe emitted short puffs with surprising rapidity. A guilty conscience needs no accuser, and the widow's cheek was dyed with blushes as she ...
— A Budget of Christmas Tales by Charles Dickens and Others • Various
... crime affords a suggestion for the method of accomplishing a certain desired end. On the other hand, the ancestral example, after having broken down the moral barrier depends entirely upon its power to fascinate. Those of weak will or guilty conscience, alone succumb to its influence. If we consider the cases of thieves, vagabonds and paupers we find their crimes and vices likewise running in families. It is nevertheless quite a mistake to jump at the conclusion that heredity accounts for all these coincidencies. Exempting all ...
— A Plea for the Criminal • James Leslie Allan Kayll
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