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Conscience

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

A clear conscience is a soft pillow. – Proverb

Conscience is the dog that cant bite, but never stops barking. – Proverb

A good conscience is a continual feast. – Francis Bacon

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

The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all. – Max Beerbohm

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

The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness. – Marguerite Blessington

The conscience is the sacred haven of the liberty of man. – Napoleon Bonaparte

What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law. – Christian Nevell Bovee

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 George Bulwer-Lytton

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

No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell! – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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

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

A mans conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldnt do — but it does not keep him from doing it. – Frank A. Clark

If you look into your own heart, you find nothing wrong there, what is there to fear? – Confucius

Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart. – Joseph Cook

The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow. – William Cowper

Honor is the moral conscience of the great. – DAvenant