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Oh! think what anxious moments pass between
The birth of plots, and their last fatal periods,
Oh! 'tis a dreadful interval of time,
Filled up with horror all, and big with death!
Author: Joseph Addison
Source: Cato (act I, sc. 3)
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Guilty consciences always make people cowards.
Author: Bidpai (Pilpay)
Source: The Prince and his Minister (chap. iii, fable iii)
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They have cheveril consciences that will stretch.
Author: Robert Burton
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. II, sec. IV, memb. 2, subsect. 3)
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Why should not Conscience have vacation
As well as other Courts o' th' nation?
Have equal power to adjourn,
Appoint appearance and return?
Author: Samuel Butler (1)
Source: Hudibras (pt. II, canto II, l. 317)
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But at sixteen the conscience rarely gnaws
So much, as when we call our old debts in
At sixty years, and draw the accounts of evil,
And find a deuced balance with the devil.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Don Juan (canto I, st. 167)
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A quiet conscience makes one so serene!
Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded
That all the Apostles would have done as they did.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Don Juan (canto I, st. 83)
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Yet still there whispers the small voice within,
Heard through Gain's silence, and o'er Glory's din;
Whatever creed be taught or land be trod,
Man's conscience is the oracle of God.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: The Island (canto I, st. 6)
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There is no future pang
Can deal that justice on the self condemn'd
He deals on his own soul.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Manfred (act III, sc. 1)
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The Past lives o'er again,
In its effects, and to the guilty spirit
The ever-frowning Present is its image.
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Source: Remorse (act I, sc. 2)
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The still small voice is wanted.
Author: William Cowper
Source: Task (bk. V, l. 687)
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Oh, Conscience! Conscience! man's most faithful friend,
Him canst thou comfort, ease, relieve, defend;
But if he will thy friendly checks forego,
Thou art, oh! woe for me, his deadliest foe!
Author: George Crabbe
Source: Struggles of Conscience (last lines)
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O faithful conscience, delicately pure, how doth a little failing
wound thee sore!
[It., O dignitosa coscienza e netta,
Come t' e picciol fallo amaro morso.]
Author: Dante ("Dante Alighieri")
Source: Purgatorio (III, 8)
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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,
[It., Se toso grazia risolva le schiume
Di vostra conscienza, si che chiaro
Per essa scenda della mente il fiume.]
Author: Dante ("Dante Alighieri")
Source: Purgatorio (XIII, 88)
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Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands
it.
Author: Dante ("Dante Alighieri")
Source: Purgatorio (XIII, 88)
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Two souls, alas! reside within my breast, and each withdraws
from and repels its brother.
[Ger., Zwei Seelen wohnen, ach! in meiner Brust,
Die eine will sich von der andern trennen.]
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Source: Faust (I, 2, 307)
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Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength to
prevent, it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
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.]
Author: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Source: Epistles (I, 1, 60)
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A cleere conscience is a sure carde.
Author: John Lyly (Lylie or Lyllie)
Source: Euphues (p. 207), Arbor's reprint
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be
looking.
Author: John Lyly (Lylie or Lyllie)
Source: Euphues (p. 207), Arbor's reprint
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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.
Author: John Milton
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!
Author: John Milton
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.
Author: John Milton
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. X, l. 842)
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Let his tormentor conscience find him out.
Author: John Milton
Source: Paradise Regained (bk. IV, l. 130)
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Whom conscience, ne'er asleep,
Wounds with incessant strokes, not loud, but deep.
Author: Michael Eyquen de Montaigne
Source: Essays--Of Conscience (bk. II, ch. V)
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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.]
Author: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
Source: Fasti (I, 485)
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A clear conscience is a soft pillow.
Author: German Proverb
Source: None
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Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.
Author: Samuel Butler
Source: None
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A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.
Author: Alphonse De Lamartine
Source: None
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Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions of the body.
Author: Jean Jacques Rousseau
Source: None
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A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder.
Author: English Proverb
Source: None
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A bad conscience has a very good memory
Author: Source Unknown
Source: None
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Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
Author: H. L. Mencken
Source: None
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The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.
Author: Izaak Walton
Source: None
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Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.
Author: George Bancroft
Source: None
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Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.
Author: George Santayana
Source: None
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Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.
Author: H. L. Mencken
Source: None
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The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
Source: None
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Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.
Author: George Bancroft
Source: None
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Conscience--the only incorruptible thing about us.
Author: Henry Fielding
Source: None
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He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes.
Author: Chinese Proverb
Source: None
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No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell!
Author: Lord Byron
Source: None
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A good conscience is a continued Christmas.
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Source: None
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