Conscience Quotes
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Every state begins in compulsion; but the habits of obedience become the content of conscience, and soon every citizen thrills with loyalty to the flag. The citizen is right; for however the state begins, it soon becomes an indispensable prop to order.
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A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.
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The Boogeyman is your conscience. The Boogeyman is the result of your own bad behavior. I love this Boogeyman.
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In mortals there is a care for trifles which proceeds from love and conscience, and is most holy; and a care for trifles which comes of idleness and frivolity, and is most base. And so, also, there is a gravity proceeding from thought, which is most noble; and a gravity proceeding from dulness and mere incapability of enjoyment, which is most base.
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Conscience gets a lot of credit that really belongs to cowardice.
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If one's conscience be dead as a stone, it is as heavy too.
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So may heaven's grace clear away the foam from the conscience, that the river of thy thoughts may roll limpid thenceforth.
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The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain.
