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God never ordained you to have a conscience for others. Your conscience is for you, and for you alone.
Conscience | God |
Success surely comes with conscience in the long run, other things being equal. Capacity and fidelity are commercially profitable qualities.
Capacity | Conscience | Fidelity | Qualities | Success |
Love it is – not conscience – that is God’s regent in the human soul, because it can govern the soul as nothing else can.
Every one has conscience enough to hate; few have religion enough to love.
Conscience | Enough | Hate | Love | Religion |
Mirthfulness is in the mind, and you cannot get it out. It is the blessed spirit that God has sent in the mind to dust it, to enliven its dark places, and to drive asceticism, like a foul fiend, out at the back door. It is just as good in its placed as conscience or veneration. Praying can o more be made a substitute for smiling than smiling can for praying.
Asceticism | Conscience | God | Good | Mind | Spirit | God | Blessed |
Henry David Thoreau, born David Henry Thoreau
When a man's conscience and the laws clash, it is his conscience that he must follow.
Conscience | Man |
Henry David Thoreau, born David Henry Thoreau
What is morality but immemorial custom? Conscience is the chief of conservatives.
Conscience | Custom | Morality |
Preserve your conscience always soft and sensitive. If but one sin force its way into that tender part of the soul and dwell thee, the road is paved for a thousand iniquities.
Conscience | Force | Sin | Soul |
The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.
Conscience | Nothing | Worth |
Nonviolence does not mean acceptance, but resistance - not waiting, but acting. It is not at all passive. It involves strikes, boycotts, non-cooperation, mass demonstrations, and sabotage, as well as appeals to the conscience of the world, even to individuals in the oppressing group who might break away from their past.
Acceptance | Conscience | Cooperation | Past | Waiting | World |
Be more careful of your conscience than of your estate. The latter can be bought and sold; the former never.
Jean Paul, born Johann Paul Friedrich Richter, aka Jean Paul Richter
The test of pleasure is the memory it leaves behind.
Are you not surprised to find how independent of money peace of conscience is, and how much happiness can be condensed in the humblest home? A cottage will not hold the bulky furniture and sumptuous accommodations of a mansion; but if God be there, a cottage will hold as much happiness as might stock a palace.
A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
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 without.
Yesterday is but today’s memory and tomorrow is today’s dream.
The conscience is not automatically infallible; it can easily make mistakes, and it is very difficult to distinguish its voice - the real voice of conscience - from the voice of precipitation, passion, convenience or self-will, or of moral primitiveness.
Conscience | Distinguish | Passion | Self | Will |