| 50 conscience Quotes
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“Never do anything against conscience, even if the state demands it”
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“Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.”
Oscar Wilde Quotes |
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“Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.”
Henry Louis Mencken Quotes |
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“Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.”
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“Conscience is what hurts when everything else feels so good”
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes |
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“Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.”
Stephen R. Covey Quotes |
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“Resist no temptation: a guilty conscience is more honorable than regret”
Albert Camus Quotes |
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“The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains”
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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!”
Joseph Addison Quotes Source: Cato (act I, sc. 3)
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“Guilty consciences always make people cowards.”
Bidpai (Pilpay) Quotes Source: The Prince and his Minister (chap. iii, fable iii)
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“They have cheveril consciences that will stretch.”
Robert Burton Quotes 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?”
Samuel Butler (1) Quotes 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.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes 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.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes 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.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes 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.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes 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.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes Source: Remorse (act I, sc. 2)
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“The still small voice is wanted.”
William Cowper Quotes 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!”
George Crabbe Quotes 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.]”
Dante ("Dante Alighieri") Quotes 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.]”
Dante ("Dante Alighieri") Quotes Source: Purgatorio (XIII, 88)
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“Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands
it.”
Dante ("Dante Alighieri") Quotes 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.]”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes 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.”
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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