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"We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void."

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

"The Play's the Thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King."

"Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience."

"Conscience is the parliament in our mind. It depends on who holds the majority."

"When the conscience runs pure and strong in the heart of thinking humanity, there is not power in any fundamentalism to take hold of the human civilization and drag it back to the medieval days of barbarianism."

"A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous."

"Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune."

"The older you get, the more you understand how your conscience works. The biggest and only critic lives in your perception of people's perception of you rather than people's perception of you."

"Always listen to your conscience. If your conscience conflicts with your faith, question everything. You discover your true faith when you start flowing with your conscience. After lessons, visions, and theories validate themselves to you, you begin to build faith in that hypothesis/feeling/idea that originated from your own heart and mind -- not that of others. Before you submit to any one religion, create your own first and then find out which one out there resonates closest with the one already in your heart."
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"The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope."

"In this choice, as I look back over more than half a century, I can only follow - and trust - the same sort of instinct that one follows in the art of fiction."

"But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term."

"I loved nearly all my teachers; but it was not till I went home to live at Oxford, in 1867, that I awoke intellectually to a hundred interests and influences that begin much earlier nowadays to affect any clever child."

"For nine years, till the spring of 1881, we lived in Oxford, in a little house north of the Parks, in what was then the newest quarter of the University town."

"My grandmother made her home at Fox How under the shelter of the fells, with her four daughters, the youngest of whom was only eight when their father died."

"For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures."

"So as the years draw on toward the Biblical limit, the inclination to look back, and to tell some sort of story of what one has seen, grows upon most of us."
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