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“Under every guilty secret there is hidden a brood of guilty wishes, whose unwholesome infecting life is cherished by the darkness.”

Life Is Wish Secret Darkness Guilty Secrecy

Book:Romola: Top Novelist Focus

Source: Romola: Top Novelist Focus

“Virtue steals, like a guilty thing, into the secret haunts of vice and infamy, clings to their devoted victim, and will not be driven quite away. Nothing can destroy the human heart.”

Humans Heart Secret Virtue Victim Vices Driven Stealing Guilty Devoted Human Heart Infamy

Book:The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt

Source: The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt

“The secret motive of the absent-minded is to be innocent while guilty. Absent-mindedness is spurious innocence.”

Secret Innocent Guilty Innocence Motive Absent Absent Minded Absent Mindedness

Author:Saul Bellow

“If any speak ill of thee, flee home to thy own conscience, and examine thy heart: if thou be guilty, it is a just correction; if not guilty, it is a fair instruction: make use of both; so shalt thou distil honey out of gall, and out of an open enemy create a secret friend.”

Ifs Heart Use Home Speak Secret Enemy Conscience Fairs Ill Guilty Thee Honey Instruction Slander Corrections Not Guilty

Book:Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles

Source: Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles

“Look at it this way: this administration is taking unprecedented steps to make sure that the government's secrets remain private while simultaneously invading the privacy of its citizens... Many innocents must be violated so that a few guilty people can be stopped. It's a digital stop-and-frisk.”

People Way Looks Government Secret Steps Citizens Guilty Administration Privacy Digital Unprecedented Nsa Invading Stop And Frisk

Author:Charles M. Blow

“Sometimes I feel very guilty, so I don't know if I am a clear example of a perfect father, because sometimes I also just punish myself, saying I'm not doing probably the right thing at this particular moment. It's a secret.”

Ifs Knows Feels Sometimes Moments Father Perfect Secret Clear Example Particular Guilty Right Thing Perfect Father

Author:Antonio Banderas

“We shall never want to serve God in our real and secret hearts if He looms in our subconscious mind as an arbitrary Dictator or a Spoil-sport, or as one who takes advantage of His position to make us poor mortals feel guilty and afraid. We have not only to be impressed by the "size" and unlimited power of God, we have to be moved to genuine admiration, respect, and affection, if we are ever to worship Him.”

Source: Your God is too small

“You think of travellers as bold, but our guilty secret is that travel is one of the laziest ways on earth of passing the time.”

Thinking Way Earth Secret Passing Passings Guilty Traveller

Book:Ghost train to the eastern star: on the tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar

Source: Ghost train to the eastern star: on the tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar

“Leaders who carry unresolved guilt are forced to hide a part of themselves from those to whom they are closest. They have a secret. They are forced to expend time and energy to ensure that no one finds them out. They know they are not completely trustworthy. Often they assume no one else is either. Guilty leaders have a difficult time trusting. Consequently, guilty leaders have a difficult time building teams.”

Knows Energy Difficult Secret Leader Team Building Guilt Assuming Guilty Closest End Times Difficult Times Trustworthy Time And Energy Building A Team

Author:Andy Stanley

“There can be...no power...to disclose...the secrets that may be buried with a human heart. The heart, making itself guilty of such secrets, must perforce hold them until the day when all hidden things be revealed.”

Humans Heart May Secret Guilty Buried Human Heart Hidden Things

Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne