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• There is a spectacle more grand than the sea; it is heaven; there is a spectacle more grand than heaven; it is the conscience.

  Victor Hugo

  Character, Sea, Heaven

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.892, BookCaps Study Guides

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• I think that the ideals of youth are fine, clear and unencumbered; and that the real art of living consists in keeping alive the conscience and sense of values we had when we were young.

  Rockwell Kent

  Art, Children, Real

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• Many liberals believe in God; many conservatives do. What matters is not whether people believe in God but what text, if any, they believe to be divine. Those who believe that He has spoken through a given text will generally think differently from those who believe that no text is divine. Such people will usually get their values from other texts, or more likely from their conscience and heart.

  Dennis Prager

  Believe, Heart, Thinking

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• The only master that exists, the only one that's true and believable is your own conscience. To find it you have to stand in silence-alone and in silence-you have to stand on the naked earth, naked yourself and with nothing around you, as if you were already dead. You don't hear anything at first; the only thing you feel is terror, but then you begin to hear a voice, away in the background, far off; it's a calm voice, and maybe its banality gets on your nerves to begin with.

  Susanna Tamaro

  Voice, Silence, Naked

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• Reason deceives us; conscience, never.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Deceiving, Reason

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• Peace of mind just can't be bought. Trust me: Even if your conscience doesn't stop you from playing dirty to get what you want, once you get it, it will keep you from enjoying it. As my mother used to say, "A good conscience is God's eye." Which is why I always prefer a loss to an underhanded gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time.

  Patti LaBelle

  Mother, Pain, Dirty

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• God leaves to our conscience the choice of the road we decide to follow, and the liberty of yielding to one or another of the opposing influences that act upon us.

  Allan Kardec

  Choices, Liberty, Influence

  Allan Kardec (2016). “The Spirits’ Book: The Principles of Spiritist Doctrine”, p.241, Secret Master eBooks

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• The bonus is really one of the great give-aways in business enterprise. It is the annual salve applied to the conscience of the rich and the wounds of the poor.

  E. B. White

  Giving, Bonus, Rich

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• The still small voice within you must always be the final arbiter when there is a conflict of duty.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Voice, Finals, Conflict

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.39, Rajpal & Sons

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• Feeling is the voice of the body; reasoning is the voice of the mind; conscience is the voice of the spirit.

  Kenneth E. Hagin

  Voice, Feelings, Mind

  Kenneth E. Hagin (1992). “The Real Faith”, Faith Library Publications

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• Confession is good for the conscience, but it usually bypasses the soul.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Soul, Bypass, Confession

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.91, BookBaby

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• A twinge of conscience is a glimpse of God.

  Peter Ustinov

  Glimpse

  Peter Ustinov (1969). “The wit of Peter Ustinov”

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• The laws of conscience, though we ascribe them to nature, actually come from custom.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Law, Customs

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• Coleridge declares that a man cannot have a good conscience who refuses apple dumplings, and I confess that I am of the same opinion.

  Charles Lamb

  Men, Apples, Opinion

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• When people generally are aware of a problem, it can be said to have entered the public consciousness. When people get on their hind legs and holler, the problem has not only entered the public consciousness -- it has also become a part of the public conscience. At that point, things in our democracy begin to hum.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  People, Democracy, Legs

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• A criminal becomes a popular figure because he unburdens in no small degree the consciences of his fellow man, for now they know once more where evil is to be found.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Self, Evil

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• No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Utterance, Clients, Oppression

  Abraham Lincoln, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (1950). “The Lincoln treasury”

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• Tradition and conscience are the two wings given to the human soul to reach the truth.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Truth, Wings, Two

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• Conscience was the barmaid of the Victorian soul. Recognizing that human beings were fallible and that their failings, though regrettable, must be humored, conscience would permit, rather ungraciously perhaps, the indulgence of a number of carefully selected desires.

  C. E. M. Joad

  Numbers, Soul, Desire

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• I have made no secret, either privately or publicly, of any sense of outrage over officially enforced military and war service. I regard it as a duty of conscience to fight against such barbarous enslavement of the individual with every means available.

  Albert Einstein

  Military, War, Mean

  Albert Einstein (2017). “Einstein on Peace”, p.189, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us that we have not endeavored to deserve well in vain.

  Samuel Johnson

  Real, Satisfaction, Praise

  Samuel Johnson (1833). “The Life of Johnson: with Maxims and Observations: Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous, Accurately Selected from the Works of Dr. Samuel Johnson, and Arranged in Alphabetical Order”, p.218

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• Never can true courage dwell with them, Who, playing tricks with conscience, dare not look At their own vices.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Vices, Looks, Tricks

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1856). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions”, p.121

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• Our true history is scarcely ever deciphered by others. The chief part of the drama is a monologue, or rather an intimate debate between God, our conscience, and ourselves. Tears, grieves, depressions, disappointments, irritations, good and evil thoughts, decisions, uncertainties, deliberations --all these belong to our secret, and are almost all incommunicable and intransmissible, even when we try to speak of them, and even when we write them down.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Disappointment, Drama, Writing

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• Who among us has not, in moments of ambition, dreamt of the miracle of a form of poetic prose, musical but without rhythm and rhyme, both supple and staccato enough to adapt itself to the lyrical movements of our souls, the undulating movements of our reveries, and the convulsive movements of our consciences? This obsessive ideal springs above all from frequent contact with enormous cities, from the junction of their innumerable connections.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Spring, Ambition, Cities

  Charles Baudelaire (2001). “The Prose Poems and La Fanfarlo”, p.30

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• There are two kinds of liberalism. A liberalism which is always, subterraneously authoritative and paternalistic, on the side of one's good conscience. And then there is a liberalism which is more ethical than political; one would have to find another name for this. Something like a profound suspension of judgment.

  Roland Barthes

  Names, Two, Profound

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