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The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.
The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.
Let his tormentor conscience find him out.
Let his tormentor conscience find him out.
No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell!
No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell!
Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands
it.
Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands
it.
Yet still there whispers the small voice within,
Heard through Gain's silence, and o'er Glory's din;
Whatever read more
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.
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 quiet conscience sleeps in thunder.
A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder.
Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength to
prevent, it seldom has justice enough to read more
Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength to
prevent, it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.
Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.
