Guilty consciences always make people cowards.

Guilty consciences always make people cowards.

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be
looking.

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be
looking.

Let his tormentor conscience find him out.

Let his tormentor conscience find him out.

A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder.

A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder.

Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.

Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.

A heart needs only its own voice to do what is right.

A heart needs only its own voice to do what is right.

Yet still there whispers the small voice within,
Heard through Gain's silence, and o'er Glory's din;
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Yet still there whispers the small voice within,
Heard through Gain's silence, and o'er Glory's din;
Whatever creed be taught or land be trod,
Man's conscience is the oracle of God.

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 clear conscience is a soft pillow.

A clear conscience is a soft pillow.