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Steven Wright
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| "A good conscience is a continual Christmas." | |
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Benjamin Franklin
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| "A good conscience is a continual feast." | |
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Robert Burton
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| "A man"s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own
heart, and his next to escape the censures of the world." | |
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Joseph Addison
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| "All actions are judged by the motive prompting them." | |
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Prophet Muhammad
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| "Conscience and cowardice are really the same thing." | |
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Oscar Wilde
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| "Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with
politics." | |
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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| "Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough
to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse." | |
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Oliver Goldsmith
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| "Conscience is the chamber of justice." | |
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Origen
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| "Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody is
looking." | |
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Henry Louis Mencken
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| "Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors
of our lives in their full shape." | |
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George Bancroft
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| "Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave
let him obey his conscience." | |
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James Freeman Clarke
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| "Courage without conscience is a wild beast." | |
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Robert Green Ingersoll
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| "If a dog will not come to you after he has looked you in the face,
you ought to go home and examine your conscience." | |
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Woodrow Wilson
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| "In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no
place." | |
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Mahatma Gandhi
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| "Labour to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial
fire,?conscience." | |
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George Washington
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| "Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out of his
conscience, thus helping to bring the collective conscience to
life." | |
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Norman Cousins
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| "Once we assuage our conscience by calling something a "necessary
evil," it begins to look more and more necessary and less and less
evil." | |
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Sydney J. Harris
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| "POCKET, n. The cradle of motive and the grave of conscience. In
woman this organ is lacking; so she acts without motive, and her
conscience, denied burial, remains ever alive, confessing the sins of
others." | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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| "Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience." | |
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George Santayana
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| "The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the
physicians of all the countries in the world." | |
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William Ewart Gladstone
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| "The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it;
but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it." | |
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Madame Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
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| "The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a
world of nuclear giants and ethical infants." | |
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General Omar Nelson Bradley
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| "There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball,
And that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all." | |
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Ogden Nash
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| "Things said or done long years ago Or things I did not do or say But
thought that I might say or do, Weigh me down, and not a day But something
is recalled, My conscience or my vanity appalled." | |
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William Butler Yeats
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| "Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue
of resolution Is slicked o"er with the pale cast of thought," | |
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William Shakespeare
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| "What a man calls his "conscience" is merely the mental action that
follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love." | |
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Helen Rowland
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| "What is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is
what you feel bad after." | |
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Ernest Hemingway
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| "Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being
witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public
eye should be entirely avoided, for good actions desire to be placed in the
light; but notwithstanding this, the greatest theater for virtue is
conscience." | |
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
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| "When one chooses to be directed by his conscientious decisions ?
thinking and acting according to his divinely inspired ideals ? he will be
acting for himself with thoughts, words and actions that satisfy his
conscience. When unbalanced, a person is likely to become controlled by
friends, fashions, public opinion, popular individuals or ideas, carnal
lusts of the flesh, or by other externals such as money and things." | |
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Loyd J. Ericson
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| "When you have no observers be afraid of yourself." | |
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