Quotes about Conscience (page 2)

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“No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell!”
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“Men never do evil so fully and cheerfully as when we do it out of conscience.”
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“If you look into your own heart, you find nothing wrong there, what is there to fear?”
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“There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.”
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“There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its length: a quite conscience.”
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“Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.”
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“Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.”
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“A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.”
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“A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.”
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“Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.”
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“We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stutter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.”
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“A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do -- but it does not keep him from doing it.”
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“The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.”
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“There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.”
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“My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, and every tongue brings in a several tale, and every tale condemns me for a villain.”
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“The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain.”
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