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.

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

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.

Yet still there whispers the small voice within,
Heard through Gain's silence, and o'er Glory's din;
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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.

A clear conscience is a soft pillow.

A clear conscience is a soft pillow.

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

Whom conscience, ne'er asleep,
Wounds with incessant strokes, not loud, but deep.

Whom conscience, ne'er asleep,
Wounds with incessant strokes, not loud, but deep.

Let his tormentor conscience find him out.

Let his tormentor conscience find him out.

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

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