"J'ai menti plusieurs fois," formed an item of every girl's and woman's monthly confession: the priest heard unshocked, and absolved unreluctant.
"Seventy times seven times didst thou gapingly contort thy visage—seventy times seven did I take counsel with my soul—Lo, this is human weakness: this also may be absolved!
There had been some mournful past, perhaps expiated in the sight of men, but from which his conscience had not yet absolved him.
"If he has committed any crime, he has most fearfully expiated it, and in our eyes he is absolved.
He said: "It doesn't mean nurses are absolved of responsibility.
Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982) If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.
Maximilien Robespierre (1758 - 1794) The judge is condemned when the criminal is absolved.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790) If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.
