Quotes with conscience

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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • Edward Dahlberg Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • Philip Roth You have a conscience, and a conscience is a valuable attribute, but not if it begins to make you think you were to blame for what is far beyond the scope of your responsibility.
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Martin Luther You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.
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  • Desiderius Erasmus You'll see certain Pythagorean whose belief in communism of property goes to such lengths that they pick up anything lying about unguarded, and make off with it without a qualm of conscience as if it had come to them by law.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • Joseph Addison A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • William Shakespeare Conscience does make cowards of us all.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Forgetfulness. A gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Martin Luther King One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Philanthropist. A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Philanthropist: A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket.
    The Devil's Dictionary
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Logan Pearsall Smith We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stutter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.
    Logan Pearsall Smith
    English writer (1865 - 1946)
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