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He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to ob

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

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That the birds of worry and care fly over you head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent. – Chinese Proverb

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Worry
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Chinese Proverb
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Conscience
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The conscience is the sacred haven of the liberty of man. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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Conscience

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

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Conscience

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

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Conscience

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

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Conscience

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It is a curious thing that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste. – Evelyn Waugh

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The best-laid schemes o mice an men
Gang aft agley. – Robert Burns

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The way the bankers have kind of toppled the way money is distributed, and taken most of it into their own hands, is as good as Stalin or Hitler. – Mario Batali

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Socialism can only arrive by bicycle. – Jose Antonio Viera Gallo

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