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A cleere conscience is a sure carde.
A cleere conscience is a sure carde.
Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands
it.
Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands
it.
Oh! think what anxious moments pass between
The birth of plots, and their last fatal periods,
Oh! read more
Oh! think what anxious moments pass between
The birth of plots, and their last fatal periods,
Oh! 'tis a dreadful interval of time,
Filled up with horror all, and big with death!
Guilty consciences always make people cowards.
Guilty consciences always make people cowards.
A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.
A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.
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.
Let his tormentor conscience find him out.
Let his tormentor conscience find him out.
Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.
Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.
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.]
