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CONSCIENCE.
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There is in man a conscience which outlives the sensations, resolutions, and emotions of the hour, and rises above them all.


We never do evil so effectually as when we are led to do it by a false principle of conscience.

Pascal.

A good conscience is the palace of Christ; the temple of the Holy Ghost; the paradise of delight; the standing Sabbath of the saints.


Trust that man in nothing, who has not a conscience in every thing.


Be fearful only of thyself, and stand in awe of none more than thine own conscience.

Burton.

The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.


Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.


There is no evil which we cannot face or fly from but the consciousness of duty disregarded.


The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.

Calvin.