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O Conscience, into what abyss of fears And horrors hast thou driven me, out of which I find no way, from deep to deeper plunged. - John Milton, Paradise Lost (bk. X, l. 842) Let his tormentor conscience find him out. - John Milton, Paradise Regained (bk. IV, l. 130) Conscience is justice's best minister; it threatens, promises, rewards, and punishes and keeps all under control; the busy must attend to its remonstrances, the most powerful submit to its reproof, and the angry endure its upbraidings. While conscience is our friend all is peace; but if once offended farewell the tranquil mind. - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Whom conscience, ne'er asleep, Wounds with incessant strokes, not loud, but deep. - Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, Essays--Of Conscience (bk. II, ch. V) The conscience is the inviolable asylum of the liberty of man. - Napoleon Bonaparte (Napoleon I) There is no class of men so difficult to be managed in a state, as those whose intentions are honest, but whose consciences are bewitched. - Napoleon Bonaparte (Napoleon I) As the blush is the signal of innocence, so is serenity of manner the token of a quiet conscience. - Madame Suzanne Curchod Necker A sound conscience is a brazen wall of defense. - Old Latin Saying It is often easier to justify one's self to others than to respond to the secret doubts that arise in one's own bosom. - Margaret Oliphant As the mind of each man is conscious of good or evil, so does he conceive within his breast hope or fear, according to his actions. - Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) Despotic conscience rules our hopes and fears. - Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) According to the state of a man's conscience, so do hope and fear on account of his deeds arise in his mind. [Lat., Conscia mens ut cuique sua est, ita concipit intra Pectora pro facto spemque metumque suo.] - Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), Fasti (I, 485) There is no college for the conscience. - Theodore Parker If we regulate our conduct according to our own convictions, we may safely disregard the praise or censure of others. - Blaise Pascal We never do evil so effectually as when we are led to do it by a false principle of conscience. - Blaise Pascal How awful is that hour when con, science stings. - James Gates Percival The thundering voice that wrings, in one dark, damning moment, crimes of years! - James Gates Percival Conscience serves us especially to judge of the actions of others. - Jean-Antoine Petit-Senn The great chastisement of a knave is not to be known, but to know himself. - Jean-Antoine Petit-Senn The most exacting jailer is our own conscience. - Jean-Antoine Petit-Senn Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences. - Pliny the Elder (Caius Plinius Secundus) Let a prince be guarded with soldiers, attended by councillors, and shut up in forts; yet if his thoughts disturb him, he is miserable. - Plutarch Who born so poor, Of intellect so mean, as not to know What seem'd the best; and knowing not to do? As not to know what God and conscience bade, And what they bade not able to obey?' - Robert Pollok One self-approving hour whole years outweighs. - Alexander Pope All fame is foreign, but of true desert; Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart: One self approving hour whole years out-weighs Of stupid starers, and of loud huzzas; And more true joy Marcellus exil'd feels, Than Caesar with a senate at his heels. - Alexander Pope, Essay on Man (ep. IV, l. 253) Displaying page 6 of 9 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 [6] 7 8 9
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