Conscience the bosom-hell of guilty man
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Victor Hugo
There is a spectacle more grand than the sea; it is heaven: there is a spectacle more grand then heaven; it is the inmost recesses of the soul ...
To make the poem of the human conscience, were it only with reference to a single man, were it only in connection with the basest of men, would be to blend all epics into one superior and definitive epic.
Conscience is the chaos of chimeras, of lusts, and of temptations; the furnace of dreams; the lair of ideas of which we are ashamed; it is the pandemonium of sophisms; it is the battlefield of the passions. ...
What a solemn thing is this infinity which every man bears within him, and which he measures with despair against the caprices of his brain and the actions of his life!
Les Miserables
Thomas Hughes
There is always a voice saying the right thing to you somewhere, if you'll only listen for it.
From Tom Brown at Oxford
From Tom Brown at Oxford
Ezra Hall Gillett
Conscience, true as the needle to the pole points steadily to the pole-star of God's eternal justice, reminding the soul of the fearful realities of the life to come.
Benjamin Franklin
All of these are from Poor Richard's Almanack
1737 The nearest way to come at glory, is to do that for conscience which we do for glory.
1739 If thou injurest Conscience, it will have its Revenge on thee.
1741 Let no Pleasure tempt thee, no Profit allure thee, no Ambition corrupt thee,
no Example sway thee, no Persuasion move thee, to do any thing which thou knowest to be Evil;
So shalt thou always jollily: for a good Conscience is a continual Christmas. Adieu.
Tryon Edwards
Conscience is merely our own judgment of the right or wrong of our actions, and so can never be a safe guide unless enlightened by the Word of God.
From A Dictionary of Thoughts
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