Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength to
prevent, it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
Oliver Goldsmith
Quotes , Source: Vicar of Wakefield (ch. XIII)
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Be this thy brazen bulwark, to keep a clear conscience, and never
turn pale with guilt.
[Lat., Hic murus aeneus esto,
Nil conscire sibi, nulla pallescere culpa.]
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Quotes , Source: Epistles (I, 1, 60)
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He that has light within his own clear breast
May sit i' the centre, and enjoy bright day:
But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts
Benighted walks under the mid-day sun;
Himself his own dungeon.
John Milton
Quotes , Source: Comus (l. 381)
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Now conscience wakes despair
That slumber'd, wakes the bitter memory
Of what he was, what is, and what must be
Worse; of worse deeds worse sufferings must ensue!
John Milton
Quotes , Source: Paradise Lost (bk. IV, l. 23)
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O Conscience, into what abyss of fears
And horrors hast thou driven me, out of which
I find no way, from deep to deeper plunged.
John Milton
Quotes , Source: Paradise Lost (bk. X, l. 842)
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Let his tormentor conscience find him out.
John Milton
Quotes , Source: Paradise Regained (bk. IV, l. 130)
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According to the state of a man's conscience, so do hope and fear
on account of his deeds arise in his mind.
[Lat., Conscia mens ut cuique sua est, ita concipit intra
Pectora pro facto spemque metumque suo.]
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
Quotes , Source: Fasti (I, 485)
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Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.
Samuel Butler
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Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.
George Bancroft
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Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.
George Bancroft
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No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell!
Lord Byron
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