William Ellery Channing Quotes
To extinguish the free will is to strike the conscience with death, for both have but one and the same life.
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If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics.
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It is enough for a poet to be the guilty conscience of his age.
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The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
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There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.
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Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.
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May the conscience and the common sense of the peoples be awakened, so that we may reach a new stage in the life of nations, where people will look back on war as an incomprehensible aberration of their forefathers!
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If we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls.
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Conscience is the internal perception of God's Moral Law.
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Must not I then entertain the saints because I must keep my conscience.
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By their very nature bureaucracies have no conscience, no memory, and no mind.
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We're wanted men, we'll strike again, but first let's have a beer.
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A tremendous strike which hit the defender full on the arm - and it nearly came off.
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A disciplined conscience is a man's best friend. It may not be his most amiable, but it is his most faithful monitor.
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Slander is a vice that strikes a double blow; wounding both him that commits, and him against whom it is committed.
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A man, so to speak, who is not able to bow to his own conscience every morning is hardly in a condition to respectfully salute the world at any other time of the day.
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Fatherlessness didn't strike me as being an event. It was a state of life.
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The sacrifice to Legba was completed; the Master of the Crossroads had taken the loas' mysterious routes back to his native Guinea. Meanwhile, the feast continued. The peasants were forgetting their misery: dance and alcohol numbed them, carrying away their shipwrecked conscience in the unreal and shady regions where the savage madness of the African gods lay waiting.
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No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.
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You must learn to walk to the edge of the light, and then a few steps into the darkness; then the light will appear and show the way before you.
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The status quo is leaving the building, and quickly.
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Everything becomes agitated. Ideas quick-march into motion like battalions of a grand army to its legendary fighting ground, and the battle rages. Memories charge in, bright flags on high; the cavalry of metaphor deploys with a magnificent gallop; the artillery of logic rushes up with clattering wagons and cartridges; on imagination's orders, sharpshooters sight and fire; forms and shapes and characters rear up; the paper is spread with ink - for the nightly labor begins and ends with torrents of this black water, as a battle opens and concludes with black powder.
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Inside and out, Westley's world was ripping apart and he could do nothing but crack along with it.
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To extinguish the free will is to strike the conscience with death, for both have but one and the same life.
