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A good conscience is a continued Christmas.
A good conscience is a continued Christmas.
The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.
The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.
But at sixteen the conscience rarely gnaws
So much, as when we call our old debts in
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But at sixteen the conscience rarely gnaws
So much, as when we call our old debts in
At sixty years, and draw the accounts of evil,
And find a deuced balance with the devil.
A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.
A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
There is no future pang
Can deal that justice on the self condemn'd
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There is no future pang
Can deal that justice on the self condemn'd
He deals on his own soul.
The Past lives o'er again,
In its effects, and to the guilty spirit
The ever-frowning Present is read more
The Past lives o'er again,
In its effects, and to the guilty spirit
The ever-frowning Present is its image.
Oh, Conscience! Conscience! man's most faithful friend,
Him canst thou comfort, ease, relieve, defend;
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Oh, Conscience! Conscience! man's most faithful friend,
Him canst thou comfort, ease, relieve, defend;
But if he will thy friendly checks forego,
Thou art, oh! woe for me, his deadliest foe!
A bad conscience has a very good memory
A bad conscience has a very good memory