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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


  • There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right. - Winston Churchill


  • It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great. - William Ellery Channing


  • No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell! - Lord Byron


  • Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does. - Josh Billings


  • Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape. - George Bancroft


  • 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


  • 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


  • 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


  • Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it. - Samuel Butler


  • He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes. - Chinese Proverb


  • I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it. - Ogden Nash


  • 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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