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- Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.
- South
- The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.
- Ricther
- Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated
- Tyron Edwards
- 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 (1672 - 1719)
- It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.
- William E. Channing
- Conscience has nothing to do as lawgiver or judge; but is a witness against me if I do wrong, and which approves if I do right. To act against conscience is to act against reason and God's Law.
- Arthur Phelps
- A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
- Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.
- Taylor
- One should be more concerned about what his conscience whispers than about what other people shout.
- Author Unknown
- A conscience is like a baby. It has to go to sleep before you can.
- Author Unknown
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