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Merit and good works is the end of man's motion, and conscience of the same is the accomplishment of man's rest.
In myconscience I believethe baggage lovesme, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me.
He was killed by theusual cabal: by himself, first of all; by the womanhe knew; by the womanhe did not know; by the man who granted his inmost wish; and by the inevitable fifth, who was keeper of his conscience and keeper of the stone.
A good eater must be a good man; fora good eater must have a good digestion, and a good digestion depends upon a good conscience.
He that purchases a manor will think to have an exact survey of the land, but who thinks of taking so exact a survey of his conscience, how that money was got that purchased that manor? We call that a man's means, which he hath; but that is truly his means, what way he came by it.
My wealth is health and perfect ease; My conscience clear my chief defence; I neither seek by bribes to please, Nor by deceit to breed offence. Thus do I live; thus will I die. Would all did so well as I!
Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.
When I landed in the republic of conscience it was so noiseless when the engines stopped I could hear a curlew high above the runway.
I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions, even though I long ago cameto the conclusion that I was not a political person and could have no comfortable place in any political group.
There are only two things worth aiming for: good music and a clean conscience.
Conscience de chire e entra|"ne vie de cousue. A torn conscience brings about a disconnected life.
People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there.You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.
The command 'Thou shalt not kill'must be binding on the conscience of humanity if the terrible tragedy and destiny of Cain is not to be repeated.
Ay, a plague on't, My conscience fools my wit!
Gloria boni hominis, testimonium bon× conscienti×. The testimony of a good conscience is the good man's glory.
The church must be reminded that it is not the master or servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state.
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe.
Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests that the United States is, or should or could be the global gendarme.
Conscience: the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
These thoughts may startle well, but not astound The virtuous mind, that ever walks attended By a strong siding champion conscience.
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
Yet much remains To conquer still; peace hath her victories No less renowned then war, new foes arise Threatening to bind our souls with secular chains: Help us to save free conscience from the paw Of hireling wolves whose gospel is their maw.
And I will place within them as a guide My umpire conscience, whom if they will hear Light after light well used they shall attain, And to the end persisting, safe arrive.
Now conscience wakes despair That slumbered, wakes the bitter memory Of what he was, what is, and what must be Worse; of worse deeds worse sufferings must ensue.
A story with a moral appended is like the bite of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience.
Science sans conscience n'est que ruine de l'a" me. Science without conscience is the soul's perdition.
Joy shivers in the corner where she knits And Conscience always has the rocking-chair, Cheerful as when she tortured into fits The first cat that was ever killed by Care.
Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.
Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.
All Reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.
The official world, the corridors of power, the dilemmas of conscience and egotismshe disliked them all.
I've got just as much conscience as any man in business can afford to keep,just a little, you know, to swear by, as 't were.
To reverence the King, as if he were Their conscience, and their conscience as their King, To break the heathen and uphold the Christ, To ride abroad redressing human wrongs, To speak no slander, no, nor listen to it, To honour his own words as if his God's.
It don't make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person's conscience ain't got no sense, and just goes for him anyway.If I had a yaller dog that didn't know nomorethana person's conscience does Iwould poison him. It takes up more room than all the rest of a person's insides, and yet ain't no good, nohow. Tom Sawyer he says the same.
But that's always the way; it don't make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person's conscience ain't got no sense, and just goes for him anyway.
Before I taught my tongue to wound My conscience with a sinful sound, Or had the black art to dispense A several sin to every sense, But felt through all this fleshly dress Bright shoots of everlastingness.
There were many ways of not burdening one's conscience, of shunning responsibility, looking away, keeping silent.When the unspeakable truth of the Holocaust became known at the end of the war, all too many of us claimed that they had not known anything about it, orevensuspectedanything Whoeverrefuses to remember the inhumanity is prone to new risks of infection Seeking to forget makes exile all the longer; the secret of redemption lies in remembrance.
We draw the sword with a clean conscience and with clean hands.
'God knows how you Protestants can be expected to have any sense of direction,'she said.'It's different with us,I haven't been to mass for years, I've got every mortal sinonmyconscience, but I know when I'mdoing wrong. I'm still a Catholic, it's there, nothing can take it away from me.' 'Of course, duckie,'said Jeremy'once a Catholic always a Catholic.'
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