Why should not Conscience have vacation
As well as other Courts o' th' nation?
Have equal power read more

Why should not Conscience have vacation
As well as other Courts o' th' nation?
Have equal power to adjourn,
Appoint appearance and return?

No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell!

No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell!

Guilty consciences always make people cowards.

Guilty consciences always make people cowards.

Never do anything against conscience, even if the state demands it

Never do anything against conscience, even if the state demands 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.

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Let his tormentor conscience find him out.

Let his tormentor conscience find him out.

Conscience is what hurts when everything else feels so good

Conscience is what hurts when everything else feels so good

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.