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A heart needs only its own voice to do what is right.
A heart needs only its own voice to do what is right.
Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... read more
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.
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands
it.
Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands
it.
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.]
Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.
Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.
Oh! think what anxious moments pass between
The birth of plots, and their last fatal periods,
Oh! read more
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!
A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder.
A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder.
A clear conscience is a soft pillow.
A clear conscience is a soft pillow.
