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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Risk is essential. There is not growth of inspiration in staying within what is safe and comfortable. Once you find out what you do best, why not try something else?
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The mind of a the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-a-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.
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One is too taken up with all that one sees and hears in Paris, however strong one is, and what I do here [in Etretat] will at least have the merit of being unlike anyone else, at least I believe so, because it will simply be the expression of what I, and only I, have felt.
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The Christian religion, then, is not an affair of preaching, or prating, or ranting, but of taking care of the bodies as well as the souls of people; not an affair of belief and of faith and of professions, but an affair of doing good, and especially to those who are in want; not an affair of fire and brimstone, but an affair of bacon and bread, beer and a bed.
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Being a stand-up comic, this isn't a stepping-stone for me; it's what I do, and this is what I'm always going to do. And even if I do a TV show, the only reasons to do a TV show is to get more people to know me to come out to my stand-up shows.
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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.
