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Guilty consciences always make people cowards.
Guilty consciences always make people cowards.
They have cheveril consciences that will stretch.
They have cheveril consciences that will stretch.
Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... read more
Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.
A cleere conscience is a sure carde.
A cleere conscience is a sure carde.
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.
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.
Why should not Conscience have vacation
As well as other Courts o' th' nation?
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Why should not Conscience have vacation
As well as other Courts o' th' nation?
Have equal power to adjourn,
Appoint appearance and return?
So may heaven's grace clear away the foam from the conscience,
that the river of thy thoughts may roll read more
So may heaven's grace clear away the foam from the conscience,
that the river of thy thoughts may roll limpid thenceforth,
[It., Se toso grazia risolva le schiume
Di vostra conscienza, si che chiaro
Per essa scenda della mente il fiume.]