Why should not Conscience have vacation
As well as other Courts o' th' nation?
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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?

Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.

Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.

A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder.

A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder.

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions of the body.

Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions of the body.

There is no future pang
Can deal that justice on the self condemn'd
He deals on his read more

There is no future pang
Can deal that justice on the self condemn'd
He deals on his own soul.

O Conscience, into what abyss of fears
And horrors hast thou driven me, out of which
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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.

The still small voice is wanted.

The still small voice is wanted.

But at sixteen the conscience rarely gnaws
So much, as when we call our old debts in
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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.