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The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
A heart needs only its own voice to do what is right.
A heart needs only its own voice to do what is right.
O faithful conscience, delicately pure, how doth a little failing
wound thee sore!
[It., O dignitosa coscienza e read more
O faithful conscience, delicately pure, how doth a little failing
wound thee sore!
[It., O dignitosa coscienza e netta,
Come t' e picciol fallo amaro morso.]
O Conscience, into what abyss of fears
And horrors hast thou driven me, out of which
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O Conscience, into what abyss of fears
And horrors hast thou driven me, out of which
I find no way, from deep to deeper plunged.
Guilty consciences always make people cowards.
Guilty consciences always make people cowards.
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.
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!
A clear conscience is a soft pillow.
A clear conscience is a soft pillow.
Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.
Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.
