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• While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Inspirational, Funny, Peace

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• The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

  Voltaire

  Honesty, Fear, Integrity

  Voltaire (1956). “Candide: and other writings”

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• Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us.

  Sigmund Freud

  Rejection, Perception, Wish

  Sigmund Freud (2003). “Totem and Taboo”, p.79, Routledge

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• All a man can betray is his conscience.

  Joseph Conrad

  Betrayal, Men, Betrayed

  Joseph Conrad (2016). “Joseph Conrad: The Complete Novels [Nostromo, Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent, etc.] (Book House)”, p.1449, Book House

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• Let a prince be guarded with soldiers, attended by councillors, and shut up in forts; yet if his thoughts disturb him, he is miserable.

  Plutarch

  Soldier, Shut Up, Miserable

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• He that hath a scrupulous conscience is like a horse that is not well weighed; he starts at every bird that flies out of the hedge.

  John Selden

  Horse, Bird, Wells

  John Selden (1821). “Selden's table talk”, p.43

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• We never do evil so effectually as when we are led to do it by a false principle of conscience.

  Blaise Pascal

  Evil, Principles

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 157, 1895.

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• Let us be thankful for health and competence, and, above all, for a quiet conscience.

  Izaak Walton

  Being Thankful, Quiet, Competence

  Izaak Walton (2013). “The Complete Angler”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

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• The tribunal of conscience exists independent of edicts and decrees.

  Edmund Burke

  Independent, Decree, Tribunals

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• No infallible oracle out of the breast.

  Frederic Henry Hedge

  Oracles, Breasts, Infallible

  Frederic Henry Hedge (1866). “Reason in Religion”, p.205

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• The color of the king doth come and go,
  Between his purpose and his conscience,
  Like heralds 'twixt two dreadful battles set:
  His passion is so ripe, it needs must break.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Passion, Color

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1806). “Macbeth. King John”, p.380

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• Better be with the dead,
  Whom we to gain our peace, have sent to peace,
  Than on the torture of the mind to lie
  In restless ecstasy.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Anxiety, Mind

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 2, l. 11

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• There is in man a conscience which outlives the sensations the sensations, resolutions, and emotions of the hour, and rises above them all.

  Edward Thomson

  Men, Emotion, Rise Above

  Edward Thomson (1872). “Evidences of Revealed Religion”, p.105

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• The sweetest cordial we receive at last,
  Is conscience of our virtuous actions past.

  William Goffe

  Past, Lasts, Action

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• Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.

  Richard Bach

  Encouraging, Wisdom, Encouragement

  "With a Conscience — ‘It’s Not You. It’s Me.’" by Claudia King, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 20, 2014.

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• If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Hate, Wicked, Guilt

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.61, Penguin

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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.

  Frank A. Clark

  War, Men, Doe

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• The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

  George Eliot

  Life, Literature, Compunction

  George Eliot (2016). “Felix Holt, The Radical: Top Novelist Focus”, p.132, 谷月社

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• A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.

  Elizabeth I

  Innocence, Innocent, Fear Nothing

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• Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Men, Opinion, Anticipation

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• Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.

  Oscar Wilde

  Vanity, Sin, Vain

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (with an Essay by Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly)”, p.65, Mondial

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• A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Motivational, Dog, Struggle

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• Conscience is but a word that cowards use, devised at first to keep the strong in awe

  William Shakespeare

  Strong, Coward, Use

  'Richard III' (1591) act 5, sc. 3, l. 310

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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.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Men, Judging, May

  Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan: Or the Matter, Forme, and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil”, p.252, Simon and Schuster

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• Conscience - the only incorruptible thing about us.

  Henry Fielding

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