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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
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
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