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.

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

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

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

A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.

A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength to
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Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength to
prevent, it seldom has justice enough to accuse.

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.

Conscience--the only incorruptible thing about us.

Conscience--the only incorruptible thing about us.

Resist no temptation: a guilty conscience is more honorable than regret

Resist no temptation: a guilty conscience is more honorable than regret

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.