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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.
They have cheveril consciences that will stretch.
They have cheveril consciences that will stretch.
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.
Oh! think what anxious moments pass between
The birth of plots, and their last fatal periods,
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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!
He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes.
He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes.
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
The still small voice is wanted.
The still small voice is wanted.
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.
