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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. -
Edward G Bulwer Lytton
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There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right. -
Winston Churchill
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It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great. -
William Ellery Channing
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No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell! -
Lord Byron
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Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does. -
Josh Billings
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Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape. -
George Bancroft
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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. -
William Shakespeare
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A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without. -
Joseph Addison
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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
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Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it. -
Samuel Butler
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He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes. -
Chinese Proverb
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I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it. -
Ogden Nash
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What a man calls his ''conscience'' is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love. -
Helen Rowland
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