Quotes with conscience-stricken

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  • William Shakespeare A peace above all earhtly dignities: A still and quiet conscience.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Charles Lamb A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of impertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience, a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noon-tide of our prosperity. He is known by his knock.
    Charles Lamb
    English essayist (1775 - 1834)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Ben Jonson Ambition, like a torrent, ne'er looks back;
    And is a swelling, and the last affection
    A high mind can put off; being both a rebel
    Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth
    All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion,
    and offereth violence to nature's self.
    Catiline His Conspiracy
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Angela Carter Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Bernard Cornwell Anyone who claims to have an entirely clear conscience is almost certainly a bore.
    Bernard Cornwell
    British author of historical novels (1944 - )
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  • Andrew Jackson As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Ada Leverson Before he left, Aunt William pressed a sovereign into his hand guiltily, as if it were conscience money. He, on his side, took it as though it were a doctor's fee, and both ignored the transaction.
    Ada Leverson
    British writer (1862 - 1933)
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  • Albert Camus By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Confusing monogamy with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other error.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Henry Fielding Conscience - the only incorruptible thing about us.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Richard Brinsley Sheridan Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.
    Richard Brinsley Sheridan
    Anglo-Irish dramatist (1751 - 1816)
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  • Jeremy Taylor Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.
    Jeremy Taylor
    British churchman and writer (1613 - 1667)
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  • Vincent Van Gogh Conscience is a man's compass.
    Vincent Van Gogh
    Dutch painter (1853 - 1890)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Joseph Cook Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.
    Joseph Cook
    6th prime minister of Australia from 1913 to 1914 (1860 - 1947)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Sigmund Freud Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • George Bancroft Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.
    George Bancroft
    American historian (1800 - 1891)
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