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We never do evil so effectually as when we are led to do it by a false principle of conscience.

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We should have all our communications with men, as in the presence of God; and with God, as in the presence of men.

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Well, my conscience hanging about the neck of my heart says very wisely to me, ‘My honest friend Launcelot, being an honest man’s son’–or rather ‘an honest woman’s son,’ for indeed my father did something smack, something grow to; he had a kind of taste–Well, my conscience says, ‘Launcelot, budge not.’ ‘Budge,’ says the fiend. ‘Budge not,’ says my conscience. ‘Conscience,’ say I, ‘you counsel well.’ ‘Fiend,’ say I, ‘you counsel well.’

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Were men so enlightened and studious of their own good as to act by the dictates of their reason and reflection, and not the opinion of others, conscience would be the steady ruler of human life, and the wards truth, law, reason, equity, and religion could be but synonymous terms for that only guide which makes us pass our days in our own favor and approbation.

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What a fool is he who locks his door to keep out spirits, who has in his own bosom a spirit he dares not meet alone; whose voice, smothered far down, and piled over with mountains of earthliness, is yet like the forewarning trumpet of doom!

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What a man calls his conscience is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.

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What a man calls his ‘conscience’ is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.

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What a strange thing an old dead sin laid away in a secret drawer of the soul is? Must it some time or other be moistened with tears, until it comes to life again, and begins to stir in our consciousness, as the dry wheat-animaleule, looking like a grain of dust, becomes alive if it is wet with a drop of water?

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What Conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do; This teach me more than Hell to shun, That more than Heav’n pursue.

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What happened to him was shocking to the conscience.

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What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted! Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, and he but naked, though locked up in steel, whose conscience with injustice is corrupted. William Shakespeare quotes

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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.

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What we call conscience, in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the constable.

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When a man won’t listen to his conscience, it’s usually because he doesn’t want advice from a total stranger.

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When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through life, and which is fed not only by the lightest action but by the most harmless pleasure, I feel Man to be of all living things the most biologically incompetent and ill-organized. Why has he acquired a seventy years life-span only to poison it incurably by the mere being of himself? Why has he thrown Conscience, like a dead rat, to putrefy in the well?

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When we try in good faith to believe in materialism, in the exclusive reality of the physical, we are asking our selves to step aside; we are disavowing the very realm where we exist and where all things precious are kept – the realm of emotion and conscience, of memory and intention and sensation.

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Whenever conscience speaks with a divided, uncertain, and disputed voice, it is not the voice of God. Descend still deeper into yourself, until you hear nothing but a clear, undivided voice, a voice which does away with doubt and brings with it persuasion, light, and serenity. Anonymous quotes

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While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.

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Who born so poor, Of intellect so mean, as not to know What seem’d the best; and knowing not to do? As not to know what God and conscience bade, And what they bade not able to obey?’

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Whom conscience, ne’er asleep, Wounds with incessant strokes, not loud, but deep.


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