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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.
Oh! think what anxious moments pass between
The birth of plots, and their last fatal periods,
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Oh! think what anxious moments pass between
The birth of plots, and their last fatal periods,
Oh! 'tis a dreadful interval of time,
Filled up with horror all, and big with death!
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.
They have cheveril consciences that will stretch.
They have cheveril consciences that will stretch.
A clear conscience is a soft pillow.
A clear conscience is a soft pillow.
A cleere conscience is a sure carde.
A cleere conscience is a sure carde.
Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions of the body.
Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions of the body.
He that has light within his own clear breast
May sit i' the centre, and enjoy bright day:
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He that has light within his own clear breast
May sit i' the centre, and enjoy bright day:
But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts
Benighted walks under the mid-day sun;
Himself his own dungeon.
Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands
it.
Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands
it.
