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O faithful conscience, delicately pure, how doth a little failing
wound thee sore!
[It., O dignitosa coscienza e read more
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.]
A heart needs only its own voice to do what is right.
A heart needs only its own voice to do what is right.
A clear conscience is a soft pillow.
A clear conscience is a soft pillow.
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.
Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.
Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.
They have cheveril consciences that will stretch.
They have cheveril consciences that will stretch.
A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder.
A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder.
A good conscience is a continued Christmas.
A good conscience is a continued Christmas.
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.