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Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
Be this thy brazen bulwark, to keep a clear conscience, and never
turn pale with guilt.
[Lat., Hic read more
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.]
Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.
Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.
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?
Guilty consciences always make people cowards.
Guilty consciences always make people cowards.
A good conscience is a continued Christmas.
A good conscience is a continued Christmas.
Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength to
prevent, it seldom has justice enough to read more
Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength to
prevent, it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
He that has light within his own clear breast
May sit i' the centre, and enjoy bright day:
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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.
Conscience is what hurts when everything else feels so good
Conscience is what hurts when everything else feels so good