Conscience Quotes
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A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.
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Conscience is but a word that cowards use, devised at first to keep the strong in awe
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Anything done against faith or conscience is sinful.
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Conscience doth make cowards of us all.
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It is the nature of all hypocrites and false prophets to create a conscience where there is none, and to cause conscience to disappear where it does exist.
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Conscience is the voice of the soul, the passions are the voice of the body. It is strange that these voices often contradict each other?
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I have no bad conscience.
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I don't remember ever being see-saw, when I'd made my mind up that a thing was wrong. It takes the taste out o' my mouth for things, when I know I should have a heavy conscience after 'em. I've seen pretty clear, ever since I could cast up a sum, as you can never do what's wrong without breeding sin and trouble more than you can ever see. It's like a bit o' bad workmanship--you never see th' end o' the mischief it'll do. And it's a poor look-out to come into the world to make your fellow creatures worse off instead o' better.
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There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right.
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Thrice is he arm'd that hath his quarrel just, And he but naked, though lock'd up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.
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And I will place within them as a guide My umpire conscience, whom if they will hear Light after light well used they shall attain, And to the end persisting, safe arrive.
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Our enemies are our outward consciences.
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Good sense, good health, good conscience, and good fame,--all these belong to virtue, and all prove that virtue has a title to your love.
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The court is really the keeper of the conscience, and the conscience is the Constitution.
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Conscience has nothing to do as lawgiver or judge; but is a witness against me if I do wrong, and which approves if I do right. To act against conscience is to act against reason and God's Law.”
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A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation.
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The still small voice is wanted.
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There are three forces, the only three forces capable of conquering and enslaving forever the conscience of these weak rebels in the interests of their own happiness. They are: the miracle, the mystery and authority.
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That men saw his mask, but the bishop saw his face. That men saw his life, but the bishop saw his conscience.
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Conscience ... seldom comes to a man's aid while he is in the zenith of health and revelling in pomp and luxury upon illgotten spoils. It is generally the last act of his life, and it comes too late to be of much service to others here, or to himself hereafter.
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The only safe and honorable course for a self-respecting man is to do what I have decided to do, that is, to submit without protest to the penalty of disobedience ... not for want of respect for lawful authority, but in obedience to the higher law of our being, the voice of conscience.
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Was ever any wicked man free from the stings of a guilty conscience?
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Probably the deepest use of music and of art is to create conscience.
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Integrity is the best of all protectors...we cannot be more secure than when fortified by a good conscience.
