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"Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience."
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"Conscience is the parliament in our mind. It depends on who holds the majority."
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"A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous."
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"Good...if you've done things you aren't proud of. It means you have a conscience."
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"Conscience doth make cowards of us all."
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"We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures."
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"There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot."
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"The simple, external acts in which you resolve shame and guilt, and set right a debt, by passing by them all and giving something grander even so and instead of. You end the circle by leaving it behind. Conscience brings awareness of the need to change something, but the source of your actions must become inspiration and devotion. You're not doing it to get out of debt; you are doing it because you know it to be the thing to do."
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"It is a happy faculty of the mind to slough that which conscience refuses to assimilate."
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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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"It was expected of me that I was to bow to the name of Andrew Jackson... even at the expense of my conscience and judgement. such a thing was new to me, and a total stranger to my principles."
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"Ambition is not a vice of little people."
People
"In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum."
Education
"Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face."
Age
"He who does not live in some degree for others hardly lives for himself."
Philosophy
"I quote others in order to better express my own self."
Inspirational
"The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere."
Life
"I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man's estate."
Life
"Few men have been admired of their familiars."
Man
"I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie."
Lie
"He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears."
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