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Labour to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
- A peace above all earthly dignities,
- A still and quiet conscience.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, King Henry VIII
If you snub Conscience a few times she will cut your acquaintance.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY, Keystones of Thought
Wicked men by specious errors and intoxicating pleasure contrive to lull conscience into a slumber; but when it wakes, its voice is louder than thunder, and its strokes keener than flashes of lightning.
JOHN THORNTON, Maxims and Directions for Youth
Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.
KARL BARTH, The Word of God and the Word of Man
- My conscience hath a thousand several tongues,
- And every tongue brings in a several tale,
- And every tale condemns me for a villain.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Richard III
I cannot and will not cut my conscience to suit this year's fashions.
LILLIAN HELLMAN, letter to House Committee on Un-American Activities, May 19, 1952
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.
H.L. MENCKEN, A Mencken Chrestomathy
Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH, The Vicar of Wakefield
Conscience ... seldom comes to a man's aid while he is in the zenith of health and revelling in pomp and luxury upon illgotten spoils. It is generally the last act of his life, and it comes too late to be of much service to others here, or to himself hereafter.
GEORGE WASHINGTON, letter to John P. Posey, Aug. 7, 1782
Conscience doth make cowards of us all.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
Scourges, racks, and flames, can inflict no pains to be compared with the stings and tortures of a guilty conscience.
JOHN THORNTON, Maxims and Directions for Youth
Our consciences are not all of the same pattern.
GEORGE ELIOT, Daniel Deronda
A man's conscience can tell him his situation better than seven watchmen in a lofty tower.
If one's conscience be dead as a stone, it is as heavy too.
E. H. CHAPIN, Living Words
There are not anywhere else so many ways of trickery, so many false lights, so many veils, so many guises, so many illusive deceits, as are practiced in every man's conscience in respect to his motives, thoughts, feelings, conduct, and character.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Conscience is the magnet of the soul. It has a divine polarity. Amid the tempests of passion, in the dark hours of trial, that only lie just this side of despair, when a host of fierce temptations beleaguer, then consult this Divine Monitor; and though its tiny needle may tremble amid the attractions of earth, yet, if uncorrupted, its polestar will be the throne of God.
Let every man be free to act from his own conscience; but let him remember that other people have consciences too; and let not his liberty be so expansive that in its indulgence it jars and crashes against the liberty of others.
E. H. CHAPIN, Living Words
Each man's soul is a menagerie where Conscience, the animal-tamer, lives with a collection of wild beasts.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY, Keystones of Thought
Conscience is extinct among us, but it is said to still linger among the more savage tribes of Africa: proof that there is a pressing need for more missionaries.
ABRAHAM MILLER, Unmoral Maxims
Conscience is an exact recorder, that writes every man's history; an inward witness, that will sooner or later speak the whole truth; an impartial judge, whose sentence will acquit or condemn.
JOHN THORNTON, Maxims and Directions for Youth
If we neglect conscience, most evils are possible.
My conscience is crosswired with my sweat glands, but there's a short in the system and I break out over things I didn't do, which only makes me look more suspect.
DAVID SEDARIS, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
Conscience after an evil act is like pulling stockings over muddy boots.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY, Keystones of Thought
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