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"But no man has a monopoly of conscience."
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"A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To the last minute she hopes your conscience will get the better of you and you will settle down again."
"Conscience allows us to do two things: Pass judgment on ourselves; approve or condemn our own conduct."
"I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind."
"Conscience without judgment is superstition."
"The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."
"O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!"
"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."
"There is such a thing as a national conscience, and it can be touched."
"Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."
Explore more quotes by Mary A. Ward
"As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted."
"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."
"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."
"English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century."
"But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term."
"We believed that growth through Local Government, and perhaps through some special machinery for bringing the wishes and influence of women of all classes to bear on Parliament, other than the Parliamentary vote, was the real line of progress."
"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."
"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."
"For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures."
"I wanted to show how a man of sensitive and noble character, born for religion, comes to throw off the orthodoxies of his day and moment, and to go out into the wilderness where all is experiment, and spiritual life begins again."
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