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He that hath a scrupulous conscience is like a horse that is not well weighed; he starts at every bird that flies out of the hedge.

Hollywood likes to boast that it can elevate the national conscience.

Honour is external conscience, and conscience is inward honour.

How awful is that hour when con, science stings.

How tedious is a guilty conscience!

Hunger is a powerful reorganizer of the conscience.

I believe that we cannot live better than in seeking to become better, nor more agreeably than having a clear conscience.

I am bound by the texts of the Bible, my conscience is captive to the Word of God, I neither can nor will recant anything, since it is neither right nor safe to act against my conscience.

I don't feel active, and that my public conscience is fully satisfied.

I confess I seldom commune with my conscience when I write.

I believe you have to nurture your conscience.

I can't tell my conscience from my insecurities.

I follow my conscience - and this is upsetting to some people, but I maintain the conscience is going to be the only thing between us and communication in the future.

If one's conscience be dead as a stone, it is as heavy too.

If you should escape the censure of others, hope not to escape your own.

If we cannot be powerful and happy and prey on others, we invent conscience and prey on ourselves.

If you have reached the point where you're certain that person has no conscience, or is in it to win rather than to love you, then the very best thing you can do is to get away. That's a very hard lesson to learn, and, furthermore, it's not always possible.

I have a clear conscience.

It is neither safe nor prudent to do anything against conscience.

I have always lived according to my conscience, and my past is clean.

I seek no better warrant than my own, conscience.

I take with me the conscience of defeat as a victory banner.

I think a public official ought to follow his conscience as to what is in the public interest, not what will protect his job.

I have no boss but my conscience.

I'm just doing what my conscience asks me to do.

Integrity is the best of all protectors...we cannot be more secure than when fortified by a good conscience.

I think I was the healthiest prisoner of conscience in the world.

It is however a disgrace to pray! Not for all, but for you, and me, and whoever has his a conscience.

I toast the Pope, but I toast conscience first.

It is the business of the teacher ... to fortify reason and to make conscience sovereign.

It's complicated, being an American, Having the money and the bad conscience, both at the same time.

It would be foolhardy to count on the conscience of the world.

It's fear that makes us lose our conscience. It's also what transforms us into cowards.

Most of us follow our conscience as we follow a wheelbarrow. We push it in front of us in the direction we want to go.

Knowledge cannot defile, nor consequently the books, if the will and conscience be not defiled.

Let your conscience be your guide.

Mirthfulness is in the mind and you cannot get it out. It is just as good in its place as conscience or veneration.

I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.

I will stay in jail to the end of my days before I make a butchery of my conscience.

Man's conscience is the oracle of God.

[Martin Luther] King subpoened the nation's conscience. He was killed for it.

Mr. Mijanovi and those associated with him are the hope and the conscience of the Yugoslav revolution.

Must not I then entertain the saints because I must keep my conscience.

My conscience is clear. I was simply doing my duty.

...my conscience has the same hard reality as a unicorn.

My conscience is killing me, isn't it? And when you're immortal that can be a really long and ignominious death

Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests that the United States is, should or could be the global gendarme.

Nature's hasty conscience.

Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.

No people can be truly happy... if abridged of the freedom of their consciences