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Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.

The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot.

Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.

Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.

There's not a crime But takes its proper change out still in crime If once rung on the counter of this world.

A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenceless!

Nor all that heralds rake from coffin'd clay, Nor florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme, Can blazon evil deeds, or consecrate a crime.

The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.

But many a crime deemed innocent on earth Is registered in Heaven; and these no doubt Have each their record, with a curse annex'd.

It is worse that a crime, it is a blunder.

Crime is not punished as an offense against God, but as prejudicial to society. - James Anthony Froude,

Every crime destroys more Edens than our own.

It is grievous to be caught.

A crafty knave needs no broker.

'Tis no sin love's fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.

Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.

By his own verdict no guilty man was ever acquitted.

For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed.

You are not to do evil that good may come of it.

The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.