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Conscience--the only incorruptible thing about us.
Conscience--the only incorruptible thing about us.
A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder.
A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder.
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.
Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.
Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.
Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions of the body.
Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions of the body.
They have cheveril consciences that will stretch.
They have cheveril consciences that will stretch.
According to the state of a man's conscience, so do hope and fear
on account of his deeds arise read more
According to the state of a man's conscience, so do hope and fear
on account of his deeds arise in his mind.
[Lat., Conscia mens ut cuique sua est, ita concipit intra
Pectora pro facto spemque metumque suo.]
