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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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Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring. – Chinese Proverb

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There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right. – Sir 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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The conscience is the sacred haven of the liberty of man. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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

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