Think not that guilt requires the burning torches of the Furies to agitate and torment it. Frauds, crimes, remembrances of the past, terrors of the future,—these are the domestic Furies that are ever present to the mind of the impious.—Cicero.
Guiltiness will speak though tongues were out of use.—Shakespeare.
Despair alone makes guilty men be bold.—Coleridge.
The sin lessens in human estimation only as the guilt increases.—Schiller.
There are no greater prudes than those women who have some secret to hide.—George Sand.
Gunpowder.—If we contrast the rapid progress of this mischievous discovery with the slow and laborious advances of reason, science, and the arts of peace, a philosopher, according to his temper, will laugh or weep at the folly of mankind.—Gibbon.
A coarse-grained powder, used by cross-grained people, playing at cross-grained purposes.—Marryatt.
Gunpowder is the emblem of politic revenge, for it biteth first, and barketh afterwards; the bullet being at the mark before the report is heard, so that it maketh a noise, not by way of warning, but of triumph.—Fuller.
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Habits.—Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, 'tis being flayed alive.—Cowper.