Conscience Quotes - Page 39

• Success surely comes with conscience in the long run, other things being equal. Capacity and fidelity are commercially profitable qualities.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Success, Running, Long

  Henry Ward Beecher (1893). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons from the Stenographic Reports by T.J. Ellinwood. September 1868 to September 1873”

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• Lust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses, and finally, a mortal bane to all the body.

  Pliny the Elder

  Lust, Mind, Enemy

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• I hate a conscience. It's always making you feel low down and disreputable. I don't believe I will say anything to my children about one, and let them have some peace.

  Kate Langley Bosher

  Children, Hate, Believe

  Kate Langley Bosher (2012). “Mary Cary "Frequently Martha”, p.97, tredition

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• There is a Sunday conscience as well as a Sunday coat; and those who make religion a secondary concern put the coat and conscience carefully by to put on only once a week.

  Charles Dickens

  Sunday, Coats, Week

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 524, 1895.

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• Men will imitate and admire his unmoved firmness, his inflexible conscience for the right; and yet his gentleness, as tender as a woman's, his moderation of spirit, which not all the heat of party could inflame, nor all the jars and disturbances of this country shake out of its place: I swear you to an emulation of his justice, his moderation, and his mercy.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Country, Party, Men

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• Mirthfulness is in the mind, and you cannot get it out. It is the blessed spirit that God has set in the mind to dust it, to enliven its dark places, and to drive asceticism, like a foul fiend, out at the back door. It is just as good, in its place, as conscience or veneration. Praying can no more be made a substitute for smiling than smiling can for praying.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Blessed, Dark, Doors

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.74

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• Conscience is a cudgel which all men pick up in order to thwack their neighbors instead of applying it to their own shoulders.

  Honore de Balzac

  Men, Order, Neighbor

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• This is the ministry and its work--not to drill hearts and minds and consciences into right forms of thought and mental postures, but to guide to the living God who speaks.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Heart, Mind, Ministry

  Frederick William Robertson (1873). “Sermons Preached at Brighton”, p.634

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• Those whose conscience demands that they defy authority in some ways that involve great consequences must be willing to accept some penalty.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Demand, Way, Authority

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• Nothing has ever remained of any revolution but what was ripe in the conscience of the masses.

  Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin

  Revolution, Mass, Ripe

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• Thrice is he arm'd that hath his quarrel just, And he but naked, though lock'd up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.

  William Shakespeare

  Justice, Naked, Steel

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.478

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• I know people. Most have no earthly notion of the price of a snow-white conscience.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  White, People, Snow

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.13, Faber & Faber

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• The civil authority, or that part of it which remained faithful to their trust and true to the ends of the covenant, did, in answer to their consciences, turn out a tyrant, in a way which the Christians in aftertimes will mention with honor, and all tyrants in the world look at with fear.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Christian, Loyalty, Tyrants

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• I am not aware that payment, or even favors, however gracious, bind any man's soul and conscience in questions of highest morality and highest importance.

  Charles Kingsley

  Men, Soul, Favors

  Charles Kingsley (1889). “Works”

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• From Memorial Day to Labor Day, you may wear white shoes. Not before and not after. As a command, the White Shoe Edict should be clear and simple enough. Do not violate it. In a society in which everything else has become relative, a matter of how it makes you feel, a question between you and your conscience, and an opportunity for you to be really you, this is an absolute.

  Judith Martin

  Memorial Day, Opportunity, Simple

  Judith Martin (1990). “Miss Manners' Guide for the Turn-of-the-Millennium”, p.149, Simon and Schuster

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• Nature's hasty conscience.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Shame, Hasty

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1824). “Works”, p.150

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• In mortals there is a care for trifles which proceeds from love and conscience, and is most holy; and a care for trifles which comes of idleness and frivolity, and is most base. And so, also, there is a gravity proceeding from thought, which is most noble; and a gravity proceeding from dulness and mere incapability of enjoyment, which is most base.

  John Ruskin

  Care, Noble, Holy

  John Ruskin (1867). “Precious Thoughts: Moral and Religious. Gathered from the Works of John Ruskin, A. M.”, p.302

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• What can be more honorable than to have courage enough to execute the commands of reason and conscience,--to maintain the dignity of our nature, and the station assigned us?

  Jeremy Collier

  Honor, Dignity, Reason

  Jeremy Collier (1725). “Essays upon several moral subjects”, p.223

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• perhaps all this modern ferment of what's known as 'social conscience' or 'civic responsibility' isn't a result of the sense of duty, but of the old, old craving for beauty.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Beauty, Responsibility, Modern

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1915). “The Bent Twig”

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• Between God and love, I recognize no mediator but my conscience.

  Madame de Stael

  And Love, Morality, Mediators

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• The path of duty I clearly trace, / I stand with conscience face to face, / And all her pleas allow; / Calling and crying the while for grace, - / 'Some other time, and some other place; / Oh, not to-day; not now!

  Alice Cary

  Grace, Calling, Path

  Alice Cary, Phoebe Cary, Mary Clemmer (1876). “The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary”, p.168

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• The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Desire, Cripples, Admire

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Harriot (Stanton). Blatch (Mrs) (1922). “Elizabeth Cady Stanton as revealed in her letters, diary and reminiscences”

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• The villager, born humbly and bred hard,
  Content his wealth, and poverty his guard,
  In action simply just, in conscience clear,
  By guilt untainted, undisturb'd by fear,
  His means but scanty, and his wants but few,
  Labor his business, and his pleasure too,
  Enjoys more comforts in a single hour
  Than ages give the wretch condemn'd to power.

  Charles Churchill

  Mean, Giving, Guilt

  Charles Churchill (1783). “The Poetical Works of C. Churchill: In Three Volumes. with the Life of the Author”, p.90

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• Some laborers have hard hands, and old sinners have brawny consciences.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Hands, Laborers, Hard

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• Toleration is not the opposite of intoleration, but it is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the right of withholding liberty of conscience, and the other of granting it. The one is the pope, armed with fire and fagot, and the other is the pope selling or granting indulgences.

  Thomas Paine

  Fire, Opposites, Religion

  Thomas Paine (1859). “Complete Works”, p.89

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