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Don't hate, it's too big a burden to bear. - Martin Luther King, Jr. In Heaven, all the interesting people are missing. - Friedrich Nietzsche We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. - Henry David Thoreau Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. - Benjamin Franklin If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. - Mother Teresa Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find. - John F. Kennedy

Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.

- H. L. Mencken

Conscience is a cur that will let you get past it but that you cannot keep from barking.

- Anonymous

Conscience is but a word that cowards use, Devised at first to keep the strong in awe.

- William Shakespeare

Conscience reigns but it does not govern.

- Paul Valery

A man's vanity tells him what is honour; a man's conscience what is justice.

- Walter Savage Landor

Conscience does make cowards of us all.

- William Shakespeare

Conscience is thoroughly well-bred, and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.

- Samuel Butler

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent, it seldom has justice enough to accuse.

- Oliver Goldsmith

I feel bad that I don't feel worse.

- Michael Frayn

Shame arises from the fear of man; conscience from the fear of God.

- Samuel Johnson

Nor ear can hear nor tongue can tell The tortures of that inward hell!

- Lord Byron

The only incorruptible thing about us.

- Henry Fielding

Liberty of conscience (when people have consciences) is rightly considered the most indispensable of liberties.

- Haddon Chambers

There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.

- French proverb

Conscience is a sacred sanctuary where God alone may enter as judge.

- Felicite Robert de Lamennais

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, self.

- Martin Luther

Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought; And enterprises of great pith and moment, With this regard, their currents turn awry, And lose the name of action.

- William Shakespeare

The soft whispers of the God in man.

- Edward Young