Oh, the blind counsels of the guilty!
Oh, how cowardly is wickedness always!
[Lat., O caeca nocentum read more

Oh, the blind counsels of the guilty!
Oh, how cowardly is wickedness always!
[Lat., O caeca nocentum consilia!
O semper timidum scelus!]

The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a read more

The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever.

Are you drawn forth among a world of men
To slay the innocent? What is my offense?
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Are you drawn forth among a world of men
To slay the innocent? What is my offense?
Where is the evidence that doth accuse me?
What lawful quest have given their verdict up
Unto the frowning judge? or who pronounced
The bitter sentence of poor Clarence's death
Before I be convict by course of law?
To threaten me with death is most unlawful:
I charge you, as you hope [to have redemption
By Christ's dear blood shed for our grievous sins,]
That you depart, and lay no hands on me.
The deed you undertake is damnable.

God bears with the wicked, but not forever.

God bears with the wicked, but not forever.

No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.

No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.

Destroy his fib, or sophistry--in vain!
The creature's at his dirty work again.

Destroy his fib, or sophistry--in vain!
The creature's at his dirty work again.

There is a method in man's wickedness,
It grows up by degrees.

There is a method in man's wickedness,
It grows up by degrees.

All wickedness is but little to the wickedness of a woman.

All wickedness is but little to the wickedness of a woman.

Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the read more

Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured.