Conscience--the only incorruptible thing about us.

Conscience--the only incorruptible thing about us.

Conscience is what hurts when everything else feels so good

Conscience is what hurts when everything else feels so good

A bad conscience has a very good memory

A bad conscience has a very good memory

Against the darkness outer
God's light his likeness takes,
And he from the mighty doubter
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Against the darkness outer
God's light his likeness takes,
And he from the mighty doubter
The great believer makes.

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.

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.

Light (God's eldest daughter!)

Light (God's eldest daughter!)

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

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

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