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There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course: a quiet conscience
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There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right.
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They have cheveril consciences that will stretch.
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This man has no soul; he has no conscience.
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Though I did wish him dead, I hate the murderer, love him murdered. The guilt of conscience take thou for thy labor, But neither my good word nor princely favor. With Cain go wander thorough shades of night, And never show thy head by day nor light.
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Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
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Though thy slumber may be deep. Yet thy spirit will not sleep; There are shades that will not vanish, There are thoughts thou canst not banish.
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Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought.
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‘Tis a blushing shame-faced spirit that mutinies in a man’s bosom. It fills a man full of obstacles. It made me once restore a purse of gold that (by chance) I found. It beggars any man that keeps it.
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‘Tis ever thus With noble minds, if chance they slide to folly; Remorse stings deeper, and relentless conscience Pours more gall into the bitter cup Of their severe repentance.
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To be satisfied with the acquittal of the world, though accompanied with the secret condemnation of conscience, this is the mark of a little mind; but it requires a soul of no common stamp to be satisfied with its own acquittal, and to despise the condemnation of the world.
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To endeavor to domineer over conscience, is to invade the citadel of heaven.
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To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism; had we never sinned we should have had no conscience. Were defeat unknown, neither would victory be celebrated by songs of triumph.
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True, conscious Honour is to feel no sin, He’s arm’d without that’s innocent within; Be this thy screen, and this thy wall of Brass.
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Trust me no tortures which the poets feign Can match the fierce unutterable pain He feels, who night and day devoid of rest Carries his own accuser in his breast.
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Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything.
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Two souls, alas! reside within my breast, and each withdraws from and repels its brother. Ger., Zwei Seelen wohnen, ach! in meiner Brust, Die eine will sich von der andern trennen.
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Undoubtedly we render our consciences callous by evil indulgences; but we cannot entirely subdue that still, small voice.
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We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
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We must be the conscience of our nation. We’ve got to help somebody. That’s what Dr. King would want us to do.
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