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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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"To keep your conscience at peace and your respect at high, don't follow those orders which make no sense."

"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."

"Conscience defined by the elders,passed on to the next generations."

"Conscience doth make cowards of us all."

"We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures."

"A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast."

"It wouldn't sit easily on one's conscience that you had been warned and there could be danger, but nevertheless you went ahead and said let's dispense these drugs."

"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."

"Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience."
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"Neither a borrower nor a lender be: For loan oft loses both itself and friend And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry."

"Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom."
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