Guilty consciences always make people cowards.

Guilty consciences always make people cowards.

Happiness means quiet nerves.

Happiness means quiet nerves.

Keep quiet and people will think you a philosopher.

Keep quiet and people will think you a philosopher.

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.

All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.

All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.

The truth is that parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet.

The truth is that parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet.

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?

Now conscience wakes despair
That slumber'd, wakes the bitter memory
Of what he was, what is, and read more

Now conscience wakes despair
That slumber'd, wakes the bitter memory
Of what he was, what is, and what must be
Worse; of worse deeds worse sufferings must ensue!

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

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