The sense of right. [ Dr. Watson ]
The pulse of reason. [ Coleridge ]
A still, small voice. [ I Kings xix. 12 ]
The only infallible judge. [ Hosea Ballou ]
Debt is an evil conscience. [ Proverb ]
A good conscience is paradise. [ Arminius ]
Money answers everything,
Save a guilty conscience sting. [ Proverb ]
Conscience cannot be compelled. [ Proverb ]
Conscience is a thousand swords. [ William Shakespeare ]
The still small voice is wanted. [ Cowper ]
What exile from himself can flee? [ Byron ]
Conscience is its own counsellor. [ South ]
A clear conscience is a sure card. [ Proverb ]
A good conscience is a soft pillow. [ German Proverb ]
No ear can hear nor tongue can tell
The tortures of that inward hell! [ Byron ]
Coquetry is love without conscience. [ Mathieu Mote ]
A good conscience needs never sneak. [ Proverb ]
The soft whispers of the God in man. [ Young ]
Conscience is the chamber of justice. [ Origen ]
Conscience is the sentinel of virtue. [ Johnson ]
A guilty conscience needs no accuser. [ Proverb ]
A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder. [ Proverb ]
An ill conscience can never hope well. [ Proverb ]
Conscience is justice's best minister. [ Lady Montagu ]
History is the conscience of humanity. [ E. de Girardin ]
Modesty is the conscience of the body. [ Balzac ]
Public opinion is a second conscience. [ W. R. Alger ]
Man's conscience is the oracle of God! [ Byron ]
Conscience is God's deputy in the Soul. [ Rev. T. Adams ]
He that has no shame has no conscience. [ Proverb ]
Conscience is its own readiest accuser. [ Chapin ]
A good conscience is the best divinity. [ Proverb ]
There is no college for the conscience. [ Theodore Parker ]
A quiet conscience causes a quiet sleep. [ Proverb ]
A clear conscience can bear any trouble. [ Proverb ]
A pure conscience may defy city gossips. [ Earl Of Beaconsfield ]
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind;
The thief doth fear each bush an officer. [ William Shakespeare ]
The conscience is more wise than science. [ Lavater ]
Conviction is the conscience of the mind. [ Chamfort ]
Let his tormentor conscience find him out. [ Milton ]
Sow truth, if thou the truth wouldst reap;
Who sows the false will reap the vain;
Erect and sound thy conscience keep,
From hollow words and deeds refrain. [ Horatius Bonar ]
A good conscience is a continual Christmas. [ Franklin ]
Oh! I have pass'd a miserable night.
So full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams.
That, as I am a Christian faithful man,
I would not spend another such a night
Though 'twere to buy a world of happy days. [ William Shakespeare ]
Ah, what a sign it is of evil life,
Where death's approach is seen so terrible! [ William Shakespeare ]
The most exacting jailer is own conscience. [ J. Petit-Senn ]
Honor is the moral conscience of the great. [ Sir W. Davenant ]
Reason deceives us often; conscience never. [ Rousseau ]
The great theatre for virtue is conscience. [ Cicero ]
Make clean thy conscience; hide thee there. [ Quarles ]
Conscience is the voice of God in the soul. [ Aughey ]
And conscience, truth and honesty are made
To rise and fall, like other wares of trade. [ Moore ]
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all. [ William Shakespeare ]
Custom is generally too hard for conscience. [ Proverb ]
An evil conscience breaks many a man's neck. [ Proverb ]
Once a year a man may say, On his conscience. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
A guilty conscience never thinks itself safe. [ Proverb ]
Religion is no more national than conscience. [ Mirabeau ]
Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt. [ Sewell ]
Reason deceives us often, - conscience, never.
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. [ Jean J. Rousseau ]
Despotic conscience rules our hopes and fears. [ Ovid ]
How awful is that hour when conscience stings. [ Percival ]
The conscience of the dying belies their life. [ Vauvenargues ]
One self-approving hour whole years outweighs. [ Pope ]
A sound conscience is a brazen wall of defense. [ From the Latin ]
I'll haunt thee like a wicked conscience still. [ William Shakespeare ]
No evil is intolerable but a guilty conscience. [ Channing ]
A clear conscience laughs at false accusations. [ Proverb ]
Conscience and wealth are not always neighbors. [ Massinger ]
I seek no better warrant than my own conscience. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
Not to hear conscience is the way to silence it. [ Proverb ]
It is always term time in the court of conscience. [ Proverb ]
Society rests upon conscience and not upon science. [ Amiel ]
Great industry and little conscience make one rich. [ German Proverb ]
Oh, that I were as happy as I am clear in conscience. [ Ovid ]
A good conscience is the best looking-glass of heaven. [ Cudworth ]
Wealth and honour can never cure a wounded conscience. [ Proverb ]
Conscience is the most enlightened of all philosophers. [ J. J. Rousseau ]
A conscience without God is a tribunal without a judge. [ Lamartine ]
Many a lash in the dark doth conscience give the wicked. [ Boston ]
The motions of passion and of conscience, are two things. [ Proverb ]
No outward change need trouble him who is inwardly serene. [ Hosea Ballou ]
A wounded conscience is able to unparadise paradise itself. [ ? ]
Men take less care of their conscience than their reputation. [ Proverb ]
The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul. [ Calvin ]
Rules of society are nothing; one's conscience is the umpire. [ Mme. Dudevant ]
Fancy runs most furiously when a guilty conscience drives it. [ Fuller ]
He enjoyeth the sweetest liberty that hath a quiet conscience. [ St. Gregory ]
A wicked conscience mouldeth goblins swift as frenzy thoughts. [ William Shakespeare ]
The conscience is the inviolable asylum of the liberty of man. [ Napoleon ]
Conscience warns us as a friend before it punishes us as a judge. [ Stanislaus ]
By the verdict of his own breast no guilty man is ever acquitted. [ Juvenal ]
Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences. [ Pliny ]
He that would have a bad night may injure his conscience that day. [ Proverb ]
Trust that man in nothing, who has not a conscience in everything. [ Laurence Sterne ]
Conscience is a sacred sanctuary where God alone may enter as judge. [ Lamennais ]
The tribunal of conscience exists independent of edicts and decrees. [ Burke ]
Some make a conscience of spitting in the church, yet rob the altar. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Conscience is the voice of the soul; passion, the voice of the body. [ J. J. Rousseau ]
Was ever any wicked man free from the stings of a guilty conscience? [ Tillotson ]
To go against reason and conscience, is to rebel against God himself. [ Proverb ]
A man of integrity will never listen to any reason against conscience. [ Horne ]
Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics. [ Sheridan ]
Good conscience is sometimes sold for money, but never bought with it. [ Aughey ]
The Unknown is an ocean. What is conscience? The compass of the Unknown. [ Joseph Cook ]
Little shame, little conscience, and much industry, will make a man rich. [ Proverb ]
The great chastisement of a knave is not to be known, but to know himself. [ J. Petit-Senn ]
The substance of a man is full good when sin is not in a man's conscience. [ Chaucer ]
Except pain of body and remorse of conscience, all our evils are imaginary. [ Rousseau ]
The thundering voice that wrings, in one dark, damning moment, crimes of years! [ Percival ]
A conscience void of offence before God and man, is an inheritance for eternity. [ Daniel Webster ]
Next to a good conscience, a clear reputation is the clearest thing in the world. [ Proverb ]
Money is a bottomless sea, in which honour, conscience, and truth may be drowned. [ Kazlay ]
Conscience is a sacred sanctuary, where God alone has the right to enter as judge. [ Lamennais ]
I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience. [ William Shakespeare ]
Happy he that can abandon everything by which his conscience is defiled or burdened. [ Thomas à Kempis ]
Let us be thankful for health and competence, and, above all, for a quiet conscience. [ Izaak Walton ]
Conscience is but a word that cowards use. Devised at first to keep the strong in awe. [ William Shakespeare ]
What we call conscience, in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the constable. [ Bovee ]
Be fearful only of thyself, and stand in awe of none more than of thine own conscience. [ Thomas Fuller ]
We do nothing, but in the presence of two great witnesses; God, and our own conscience. [ Proverb ]
Leave her to heaven and to those thorns that in her bosom lodge, to prick and sting her. [ William Shakespeare ]
The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from custom. [ Montaigne ]
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called Conscience. [ George Washington ]
You will never miss the right way if you only act according to your feelings and conscience. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God, and value it next to a good conscience. [ Izaak Walton ]
Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
The shortest way to arrive at glory should be to do that for conscience which we do for glory. [ Montaigne ]
Nothing has ever remained of any revolution, but what was ripe in the conscience of the masses. [ Ledru-Rollin ]
In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best; in matters of prudence, last thoughts are best. [ Robert Hall ]
The mind conscious of Innocence despises false reports: but we are always ready to believe a scandal. [ Ovid ]
The Golden Rule Of Three.
Three things to be - pure, just and honest.
Three things to govern - temper, tongue and conduct.
Three things to live - courage, affection and gentleness.
Three things to love - the wise, the virtuous and the innocent.
Three things to commend - thrift, industry and promptness.
Three things about which to think - life, death and eternity.
Three things to despise - cruelty, arrogance and ingratitude.
Three things to admire - dignity, gracefulness and intellectual power.
Three things to cherish - the true, the beautiful and the good.
Three things for which to wish - health, friends and contentment.
Three things for which to fight - honor, home and country.
Three things to attain - goodness of heart, integrity of purpose and cheerfulness of disposition.
Three things to give - alms to the needy, comfort to the sad and appreciation to the worthy.
Three things to desire - the blessing of God, an approving conscience and the fellowship of the good.
Three things for which to work - a trained mind, a skilled hand and a regulated heart.
Three things for which to hope - a haven of peace, a robe of righteousness and the crown of life. [ Beattie ]
Remorse of conscience is like an old wound; a man is in no condition to fight under such circumstances. [ Jeremy Collier ]
The intellect has only one failing, which, to be sure, is a very considerable one. It has no conscience. [ Lowell ]
Sin seen from the thought is a diminution or loss; seen from the conscience or will, it is a pravity or bad. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Men are guided less by conscience than by glory: and yet the shortest way to glory is to be guided by conscience. [ Henry Home ]
Avoid law suits beyond all things; they influence your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property. [ La Bruyere ]
Every man has a paradise around him till he sins, and the angel of an accusing conscience drives him from his Eden. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
If you are about to strive for your life, take with you a stout heart and a clean conscience and trust the rest to God. [ J. Fenimore Cooper ]
What is a philosopher? One who opposes nature to law, reason to usage, conscience to opinion, and his judgment to error. [ Chamfort ]
Give me the liberty to know, to think, to believe, and to utter freely, according to conscience, above all other liberties. [ Milton ]
All duties are matter of conscience, with this restriction that a superior obligation suspends the force of an inferior one. [ L'Estrange ]
Cheerfulness is full of significance; it suggests good health, a clear conscience, and a soul at peace with all human nature. [ Charles Kingsley ]
Memory is the cabinet of imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience, and the council-chamber of thought. [ Basile ]
Do your duty, and don't swerve from it. Do that which your conscience tells you to be right, and leave the consequences to God. [ B. R. Haydon ]
Next to temperance, a quiet conscience, and cheerful mind, and active habits, I place early rising, as a means of health and happiness. [ Timothy Flint ]
The origin of all mankind was the same; it is only a clear and good conscience that makes a man noble, for that is derived from heaven itself. [ Seneca ]
Psychical pain is more easily borne than physical: and if I had my choice between a bad conscience and a bad tooth, I should choose the former. [ Heinrich Heine ]
There may be some tenderness, in the conscience and yet the will be a very stone; and as long as the will stands out, there is no broken heart. [ Richard Alleine ]
I am not aware that payment, or even favors, however gracious, bind any man's soul and conscience in questions of highest morality and highest importance. [ Charles Kingsley ]
Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience; the later to a soul changed for the better. [ Joubert ]
In getting of your riches, and in using of them, you should always have three things in your heart, that is to say, our Lord God, Conscience, and good Name. [ Geoffrey Chaucer ]
With stupidity and sound digestion man may front much; but what in these dull, unimaginative days are the terrors of conscience to the diseases of the liver! [ Carlyle ]
A man who is not able to make a bow to his own conscience every morning is hardly in a condition to respectfully salute the world at any other time of the day. [ Douglas Jerrold ]
A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body. It preserves a constant ease and serenity within us, and more than countervails all the calamities and affections which can possibly befall us. [ Addison ]
The Carlyles were men who lavished their heart and conscience upon their work; they builded themselves, their days, their thoughts and sorrows, into their houses; they leavened the soil with the sweat of their rugged brows. [ John Burroughs ]
Let us not envy some men their accumulated riches; their burden would be too heavy for us; we could not sacrifice, as they do, health, quiet, honor, and conscience, to obtain them: it is to pay so dear for them that the bargain is a loss. [ Bruyere ]
History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality. A man who moralizes is usually a hypocrite, and a woman who moralizes is invariably plain. There is nothing in the world as unbecoming to a woman as a Nonconformist conscience. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]
Conscience is doubtless sufficient to conduct the coldest character into the road of virtue; but enthusiasm is to conscience what honor is to duty; there is in us a superfluity of soul, which it is sweet to consecrate to the beautiful when the good has been accomplished. [ Mme. de Stael ]
The shortest way to arrive at glory should be to do that for conscience which we do for glory. And the virtue of Alexander appears to me with much less vigor in his theater than that of Socrates in his mean and obscure employment. I can easily conceive Socrates in the place of Alexander, but Alexander in that of Socrates I cannot. [ Montaigne ]
No man ever stood lower in my estimation for having a patch in his clothes; yet I am sure there is greater anxiety to have fashionable, or at least clean and unpatched clothes, than to have a sound conscience. I sometimes try my acquaintances by some such test as this - who could wear a patch, or two extra seams only, over the knee. [ Thoreau ]
A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart; his next, to escape the censures of the world. If the last interferes with the former, it ought to be entirely neglected; but otherwise there cannot be a greater satisfaction to an honest mind, than to see those approbations which it gives itself seconded by the applause of the public. [ Addison ]
Mirthfulness is in the mind, and you cannot get it out. It is the blessed spirit that God has set 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 place, as conscience or veneration. Praying can no more be made a substitute for smiling than smiling can for praying. [ Beecher ]
No process is so fatal as that which would cast all men in one mould. Every human being is intended to have a character of his own, to be what no other is, to do what no other can do. Our common nature is to be unfolded in unbounded diversities. It is rich enough for infinite manifestations. It is to wear innumerable forms of beauty and glory. Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influences to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach. [ Channing ]