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Some over-anxious aspirants fall into the error which the sixteenth-century Roman saint, Philip, warned against when he said that prolonged expression of remorse for a venial sin was often worse than the sin itself. I think he meant that this was a kind of unconsciously disguised and inverted spiritual pride.

-- Notebooks Category 6: Emotions and Ethics > Chapter 1 : Uplift Character > # 499