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"I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind."
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"I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity."
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"We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void."
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"We discover part of our true self only by conspicuous inspection of the depths of our conscience."
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"Conscience defined by the elders,passed on to the next generations."
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"There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot."
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"It is a happy faculty of the mind to slough that which conscience refuses to assimilate."
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"Every day the choice is presented to us, in a thousand different ways, to live up to the spirit which is in us or to deny it. Whenever we talk about right and wrong we are turning the light of scrutiny upon our neighbors instead of upon ourselves. We judge in order not to be judged. We uphold the law, because it is easier than to defy it. We are all lawbreakers, all criminals, all murderers, at heart. It is not our business to get after the murderers, but to get after the murderer which exists in each and every one of us. And I mean by murder the supreme kind which consists in murdering the spirit."
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"It is probable that the most inhuman monsters, even the Himmlers and the Mengeles, convince themselves that they are engaged in noble and courageous acts."
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"To hell, allegiance! Vows, to the blackest devil!Conscience and grace, to the profoundest pit!I dare damnation."
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"I have no bad conscience."
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"I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all like an opera."
People
"Cast your mind on other days that we in coming days may be still the indomitable Irishry."
Leadership
"You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements."
God
"The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth."
Heart
"I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above; those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love."
Love
"The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober."
Man
"Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends."
Friendship
"But was there ever dog that praised his fleas?"
Criticism
"A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love."
Love
"How can we know the dancer from the dance?"
Dance
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