How To Use Conscience In A Sentence
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Labour to keep alive in your breast that spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
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Their lack of conscience helps them a great deal.
Times, Sunday Times
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What seemed an easy task becomes complicated by locals' objections and, ultimately, the landman's own crisis of conscience.
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Then, when cashiered out of the navy after refusing to follow orders which offended his conscience, he is visited by the mysterious benefactor who has shadowed him his entire life, who invites him to join a highly exclusive gentlemen's club, Redking's.
REVIEW: Not Less Than Gods and The Women of Nell Gwynne's by Kage Baker
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Some of it is maybe "agenbite of inwit," the Middle English phrase meaning remorse of conscience.
Rectitude Chic
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All men have a moral conscience and want to be good, but often fail to avoid doing what is morally wrong. Dr T.P.Chia
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The opening door woke Roger, startled Patrick and gave the cat an unwonted and sudden attack of conscience.
MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
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A bad conscience is a snake in one's heart.
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They acted out of a conscience that patriots despised but at least could understand.
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And wherefore is he wearing such a conscience-stricken air?
Dipodic Verse : A.E. Stallings : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
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Betty is a bundle of nerves, has a well-developed "New-England Conscience," and among other deviative (not degenerative) signs is possessed of an insatiate desire to climb trees.
Why Worry?
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I have battled with my conscience over whether I should actually send this letter.
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How will she square this with her conscience?
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As a long-time B-list critic and junketeer, my conscience has long been inured to the petty scams of the Golden Globes voter shoving another complimentary cream puff into his craw.
House of Scams and Fog, Or How to Break Into Your Own Apartment
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No one has the right to try to salve their conscience through another human being.
SEA MUSIC
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I was a conscienceless exploiter of men, a ruiner of families, a disgusting plutocrat who cared nothing for anyone but myself.
The envelopes
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Is a global social conscience a luxury only the pampered scions of the middle classes can afford?
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Soon all that was left was nothing more than a ghostly echo of a guilty conscience.
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You can face Lionel with a clear conscience -- you've done nothing to harm him.
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Lawes written thei occupy none, but iudge accordyng to reason and conscience.
The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie
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We reaffirm the inerrant Scripture to be the sole source of written divine revelation, which alone can bind the conscience.
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Meeting ethical criteria leads not only to a relatively clear research conscience but to better research.
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Now, as for those in our church who contend for the ceremonies, many of them are led by such _argumenta inartificialia_, as wealth, preferment, &c., and if conscience be at all looked to by them, yet they only throw and extort an assent and allowance from it, when worldly respects have made them to propend and incline to an anterior liking of the ceremonies.
The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2)
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When we follow our conscience, we weigh the arguments and do what we recognise to be right.
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a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned: 6 From which some having swerved have turned aside unto vain jangling; 7 Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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They do, on occasion, have pangs of conscience regarding self-centredness.
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Think of the good done - the minimum wages, the new deals and other sops to middle class consciences, they plead.
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And as long as we use the term ambiguously and fail to discriminate between conscience proper and the term as used in the looser, larger sense, we will have nothing but confusion.
To Infidelity and Back
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You are unable to conceive of the man without conscience.
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Have they no conscience about that?
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A horrible something, as penetrable as mist, as keen as the sting of conscience, as inevitable as the burden of life, seemed to inwrap him.
A Tar-Heel Baron
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But ultimately, after wrestling with his conscience, he decided not to publish a story.
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He's proved his point long ago and could pack it in tomorrow if he wanted with a clear conscience.
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'This house will do whatever is incumbent upon it in good conscience,' said the abbot with chilly emphasis, and watched with an unrevealing face as Drogo Bosiet, with only the curtest of nods by way of leavetaking, turned on his booted heel and strode out of the chapterhouse.
The Hermit of Eyton Forest
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Reason, conscience and common sense demand that there be a Creator.
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So, too, is David trapped when the prophet Nathan uses a story to catch his king's conscience.
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he has no conscience about his cruelty
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For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.
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While we respect religious creeds, spiritual leaders and church councils, none of these can bind our consciences or force us to believe or observe anything outside of Bible truth.
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When, as the newest member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Webb praised those military men "of moral conscience" whom the Bush administration had "demeaned" and "destroyed" for their opposition to the war, Newbold was among those he had in mind.
The Night of the Generals
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The stunt, aimed tweaking bourgeois consciences, ended when the city offered the men lodging in an army barracks.
Times, Sunday Times
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The great standard, in the Maiden's wars, was to be used for the rallying of all her host; the pennon was a signal to those who fought around her, as guards of her body; and about the banner afterwards gathered, for prayer and praise, those men, confessed and clean of conscience, whom she had called and chosen.
A Monk of Fife
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`And perhaps you're suspicious of him only in order to clear your conscience about seeing him again, despite little wifey back at home.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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Conscience is a function of the ego ideal, and is critical of failure to live up to the ego ideal.
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The Spirit, however, in fastening this truth upon the conscience, does not extinguish, but, on the contrary, does consummate and intensify, the sense of all other sins.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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On the surface he was an optimistic extrovert, preaching freedom of conscience and religion; but underneath he was a brooding pessimist, with intransigent, darkly mystical views about the drama of human history and sexuality.
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I was most conscience-stricken by my anguished looking mother's tearful eyes; an unproud image now permanently carved into my subconscious.
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How, in all good conscience, do we say ‘no’ to climate change refugees who point at our profligate use of energy that contributed to their plight?
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Anna and her conscience had a little tussle.
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But because conscience is a relative term, and so must refer to something which it is to be conversant about, I shall shew, that men are commanded a subjection to, and dehorted from a resistance of the civil magistrate, by two things.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. III.
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Acting on his principles, Mr. Newman refuses to "depress" his conscience (as he says) to the Bible standard.
The Eclipse of Faith Or, A Visit To A Religious Sceptic
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Chaque incarnation nous permet de densifier notre taux vibratoire de conscience.
Archive 2009-04-27
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Guilty consciences always make people [men] cowards.
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The former prisoner of conscience was elected president of the new democracy.
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Even the old parliamentarians hailed the return of Charles, notwithstanding it was admitted that the protectorate was a vigorous administration; that law and order were enforced; that religious liberty was proclaimed; that the rights of conscience were respected; that literature and science were encouraged; that the morals of the people were purified; that the ordinances of religion were observed; that vice and folly were discouraged; that justice was ably administered; that peace and plenty were enjoyed; that prosperity attended the English arms abroad; and that the nation was as much respected abroad as it was prosperous at home.
A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges
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It seems that in situations such as this, politics become incompatible with conscience, principle, decency and self-respect.
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Rest it on your conscience if you wine and dine your lover and claim client entertainment.
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It was a guilty conscience that made him admit stealing the money.
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Repent if there is anything on your conscience and rededicate yourself to the Lord.
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Those of a delicate conscience may be offended by the movie, but the images it conjures in the mind are more disturbing than those depicted on screen.
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He experienced a sudden pang of conscience.
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They affected him not only as a man of conscience but as a politician.
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After he had committed the crime, his conscience was troubled.
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Later Protestantism favoured liberty of conscience.
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There are students who object to saluting the flag as a matter of conscience.
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Affecting someone's conscience by grace and restraint does not mean rolling over and playing dead, muttering meaningless politically correct platitudes, or remaining silent as many find it politic to do.
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Conscience and science must go hand in hand to prevent the destruction of humankind.
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In fact, the only voice you might reasonably expect to rise in protest on your touching a painting or statue is that of your own conscience.
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Her brothers, observing how she cherishes the plant, steal the pot, discover the mouldering head, and fly, conscience-stricken, into banishment.
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It is the profound, incurable, and inextirpable bigotry of the English people, to which they will not hesitate to sacrifice the national honour, the public happiness, their own liberties, and their own consciences ... ....
Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846
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Betrayal is common for men with no conscience. Toba Beta
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For the sake of good conscience, we should not mistreat other people.
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A guilty conscience is a self-accuser.
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While we respect religious creeds, spiritual leaders and church councils, none of these can bind our consciences or force us to believe or observe anything outside of Bible truth.
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The yearlong separation from family has gnawed at the conscience of troops who've served there since the 1950s.
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Russell had a strong conscience and held firm beliefs.
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Ask any Australian who hasn't had their conscience lobotomized by the Right Wing Death Beasts.
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The Daily Mail has the headline "The Voice of Conscience".
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She still had a little bit of conscience left, interfering with her demonly freedom.
Up In A Heaval
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He lay awake,[Sentencedict] scourged by his conscience.
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A clear conscience is a sure card.
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He felt it was the least he could do, and secretly hoped it would somehow salve his conscience.
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As long as he does nothing wilfully provocative, he has considerable freedom to redefine his personal position on matters of faith and conscience.
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She refused to listen to the voice of conscience.
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There is no pain like that of a guilty conscience, and bigots hate to admit they're wrong.
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If this means risking arrest for nonviolent symbolic actions of peaceful civil resistance and then enduring a time of incarceration then this must be done for the sake of the higher laws of justice and the leadings of our individual consciences.
Convicted Criminal Considers the Cause, the Crime, and the Court
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Singing and dancing may bring pleasure to the public, charity concerts may salve guilty consciences and the world is definitely in need of some cheering up.
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He was a man without a conscience, and so long as his own ends and the ends of his friends were served, he would never scruple to empty the woman's girnel or toom her last basin, and leave her no morsel of food or drink at the long-run.
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
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You haue bin in Ireland, knowe partlie the Irish con - dition; this is a verie tractable fellowe, and yet of a bardie and stout corage; I am perswaded he is very honest, es - pecially he makes great conscience of his promise and vowe.
Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society
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Realism and myth, lyrical memoir and contemporary reality, combine in the highly individual texture of his prose, which expresses the heart-searchings of a solitary man with a restless social conscience.
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[...] weeks dig from the archive is a post from last summer featuring a burglar with a conscience.
Burglar breaks in twice to leave sorry note : about:blank
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Let us then feede his flocke with a trebble zeale, expressed in our prayer, preaching and living: Let us make it appeare to the consciences of all, that the top of our ambition is Gods glory: and that wee preferr the winning of soules, to the winning of the world.
A Coal From The Altar, To Kindle The Holy Fire of Zeale In a Sermon Preached at a Generall Visitation at Ipswich
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Complex moral issues are better left to the consciences of elected members of parliament.
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She has been exposed as an amoral, unfeeling, self-serving, despicably conscience-less human being.
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The brave man hazards his life, but not his conscience.
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If you try to ease your guilty conscience by telling her what happened, she will be miserable and it will almost certainly put paid to your friendship.
The Sun
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It appears that a conscience is actually good for business.
Times, Sunday Times
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Guilt had been eating into her conscience for some days.
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I had advanced so far as to sit down at my window again on my second morning, and to write the first half-line of the chapter and strike it out, not liking it, when my conscience reproached me with not having surveyed the watering-place out of the season, after all, yesterday, but with having gone straight out of it at the rate of four miles and a half an hour.
Reprinted Pieces
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Prudentials, according to general rules of Scripture, may be of use in circumstantials, but will bare prudentials in substantials also satisfy either our God, our covenant, our consciences, or our end in this great work of reformation?
The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London
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The Earle of Pancalier aduertised hereof, began incontinently to feele a certaine remorse of conscience, which inwardly gript hym so nere, as he endured a torment lyke to very death.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1
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Quand j'ai repris conscience j'etais dans les bras de ma prof de bio qui essayais de me retenir de ne pas tomber de mon tabouret.
Pinku-tk Diary Entry
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It was not a diary, nor was it a matter of conscience.
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But if we have a conscience about our familiar old things what can we do?
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And as for those who were not themselves divinely inspired, or wherein those that were so did not act by immediate inspiration, they proved the truth of what they delivered by its consonancy unto the Scriptures already written, referring the minds and consciences of men unto them for their ultimate satisfaction, Acts xviii. 28, xxviii.
Pneumatologia
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My conscience is clear as I know we gave her the best we could with what we had available to us.
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In the end he was driven to confess and face a prison sentence, feeling that to clear his conscience would be cheap at the price.
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This, then, is what Tom Friedman — in antiseptic language designed to leave elite consciences undisturbed — would like to portray as successful American policy: Using the Iraqi people as bait to attract jihadists from around the region and distract them from attacking the American homeland.
Wonk Room » Friedman: America Successfully Used Iraqis As Bait
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We can not expect voters to leave their conscience behind them when they go to the polling booth.
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A clean conscience fears not false accusations.
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His conscience troubled him.
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She told the court:'I acted with trust and with a clear conscience with the only intention of defending the public interest.
Times, Sunday Times
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He tried to find a compromise that would satisfy his artistic urge and quieten his conscience.
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He conferred on it a kind of inquisitorial and censorial powers even over the laity, and directed it to inquire into all matters of conscience; into all conduct which had given scandal; into all actions which, though they escaped the law, might appear contrary to good morals.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part C. From Henry VII. to Mary
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The public should be thankful that some MPs have a conscience and not a cavalier disregard of democracy.
Times, Sunday Times
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I have come to realise that he was born entirely without a conscience or a sense of remorse.
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Money is a bottomless sea, in which honour, conscience and truth may be drowned.
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I have discharged my duty, she thought, I can not be troubled by my conscience in that respect.
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Do you know what morals are Violet? They're other people's rules. Do you know what a conscience is? Freedom to use your own intelligence to determine what is right or wrong. You possess that freedom and no one can remove it from you. Amy Tan
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Coming to men with the Circean torch of licentiousness in her hand, with fair promises of freedom, she first stupefies the conscience, and brutifies the affections; and then renders her votaries the most abject slaves of guilt and crime.
Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs
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Archive 2009-02-15
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In some mitigation, for the application of mathematics to the physical world one's conscience may be fairly untroubled by the difficulties of self-referential statements.
Theories of Everything and Godel's theorem
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Seemingly, I would alleviate my guilty conscience by showering him with presents.
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Life's pressures weigh less heavily on those who genuinely have no conscience or guilt, the pathologist told me.
Times, Sunday Times
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This is certainly true of beliefs in the importance of freedom of conscience.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Now I have all the head-turning fun of a multimirrored modstyle vintage Vespa with the conscience-soothing, completely silent, clean, and nonpolluting practicality of a thoroughly modern electric scooter.
E Is for Environment
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“In the name of God,” said Menteith, trembling with emotion, “if you know aught of the birth of this lady, do thy conscience the justice to disburden it of the secret before departing from this world!”
A Legend of Montrose
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I can't in good conscience recommend the hand rolls tonight.
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He who has no shame has no conscience.
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None of these people should ever have been prisoners of conscience.
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Embarrassed, she paid by cash and wrestled with her conscience all the way home.
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Guilty consciences always make people [men] cowards.
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His conscience at once spoke out, and in the agony of his remorse he had resort to a hermit who bade him renounce the world, grave for himself a cell in the face of the melaphyre clay -- the hermit did not give to the rock its mineralogical name -- and await a token from heaven that he was forgiven.
Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe
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Parker displayed a remarkable lack of conscience about what he had done.
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My conscience got so expansive and fine-strung it lamed me across the shoulders to carry it around with me.
THE PRINCESS
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Have your own convictions. Believe in the laws of your conscience because if you believe in everything, you become nothing. RVM
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His social conscience was touched by anything that might prink his next disc with a sparkle of gold.
PASSION IN THE PEAK
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The design of Christianity is to soften and meeken the spirit, to teach us the art of obliging and true complaisance; not to be servants to the lust of any, but to the necessities and infirmities of our brethren -- to comply with all that we have to do with as fare as we can with a good conscience.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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Their conscience was not troubled by worries over objectivity.
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However, our recompence is in Christ's hands, who will reward us with eternal glory for the shame we thus patiently endure; and though it be not directly inflicted, it if be quietly borne for conscience 'sake, and in conformity to Christ's example, it shall be put upon the score of suffering for Christ.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
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Life's pressures weigh less heavily on those who genuinely have no conscience or guilt, the pathologist told me.
Times, Sunday Times
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Politics, in many ways, does not delight in a clear conscience and clean hands.
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On the contrary, as all resistance whatsoever of the dictates of conscience, even in the way of natural efficiency, brings a kind of hardness and stupefaction upon it; so the resistance of these peculiar suggestions of the Spirit will cause in it also a judicial hardness, which is yet worse than the other.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. II.
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One is happy as a result of one's own efforts once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness: simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self denial to a point, love of work, and above all, a clear conscience. George Sand
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They would do their constituents, the country and their consciences a service by doing so.
Times, Sunday Times
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He won't let it trouble his conscience.
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Conscience is a Jewish invention. Adolf Hitler
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He loves the pleasures of old Paris and could be content to be like any other Euro idler, but events beckon his conscience to undertake a mission in counterespionage.
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She has become the self - appointed guardian of the nation's conscience.
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The white robes are just symbolic of a pure, clean conscience for the first permanently clean conscience.
Christianity Today
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Pity the man with a wounded conscience!
Times, Sunday Times
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I suggested that he should unburden his mind and clear his conscience… by telling me the full story.
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Crushed into self, and his own conscience and _schema mundi_, he loses the opportunity of correcting his impression of the voice of God within, by the testimony of the voice of God without; and so he begins to mistake more and more the voice of that very flesh of his, which he fancies he has conquered, for the voice of God, and to become, without knowing it, an autotheist.
Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography
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That could mean the strength of our consciences is partly determined by our genes.
Times, Sunday Times
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When he was gone, she scolded me, and reproached me with what she called my coquetry and imprudence; I could not bear her injustice, and very rashly replied, that no one had a right to blame me when my own conscience absolved me.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864
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Terre de Conscience se réjouit de compter une nouvelle personne parmi son équipe engagée dans la transmission d'une approche intégrale d'épanouissement de l'être.
Archive 2009-02-15
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His conscience overcame him and he restored the books he had taken from the shop.
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As you might expect, his words do not approach cliche, describing the pain in the conscience-stricken priest's feet, for example, as ‘his daily stigmata’.
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Down underneath New York City, in a network of tunnels and caverns, rat-populated, perspiring, rumbling, lonely, I was troubled, as I have often been troubled, by these alarums of conscience.
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Why should not Conscience have a vacation. Samuel Butler
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Thereafter, my conscience is so laden with guilt that sleep continues to elude me for a further six weeks.
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As, with reference to the growth of every grace of the Spirit, it is of the utmost importance that we seek to maintain an upright heart and a good conscience, and, therefore, do not knowingly and habitually indulge in those things which are contrary to the mind of God, so it is also particularly the case with reference to the _growth in faith_.
The Life of Trust: Being a Narrative of the Lord's Dealings With George Müller
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With its unforgiving machine memory, the Internet might turn out to be the unlikely conscience of the world.
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Helping now is more than an act of conscience; it is also an act of enlightened self-interest.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her hair is short and neat, her smile beatific, and her conscience troubled.
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He and his fellow jurors were at liberty to follow their consciences and perhaps should have done so.
Times, Sunday Times
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a pang of conscience
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Stoppard further underlines the tension between perception and reality by riffing on Hamlet's ‘play within a play’ that catches the conscience of the king.
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MC: I would have said something quite different, but along the same lines: that it would be fairly easy provided developers' consciences were sufficiently raised to design a game that does _not_ promote self-hatred and the worship of a narrow band of mesomorph/fashion-model/superstar-athlete characteristics, but instead actively promotes notions of healthy diversity in human appearance and potentials.
Ask Not What Educational Games Your Country Can Design for You...
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Poor old men! how could they be cordial with their sore consciences and shamed faces? how could they bid God bless him with hearty voices and a true benison, knowing, as they did, that their vile cabal had driven him from his happy home, and sent him in his old age to seek shelter under a strange roof-tree?
The Warden
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En prenant pour portes d'accès la danse libre, le hatha et le kundalini yoga, et en laissant des temps pour la relaxation, l'auto-massage et la méditation, vous vous offrez un temps pour respirer avec plus de conscience, affiner la perception de notre corps physique et énergétique. et explorer des états d'expansion de conscience afin de mettre en lumière des informations utiles pour votre vie.
Archive 2009-02-15
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And apologists for Labour's refusal to organise in Northern Ireland can not in all conscience describe themselves as democrats.
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Since then, every issue of the journal has published appeals for the release of other prisoners of conscience.
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So can we wear cut-price party dresses with a clear conscience?
Times, Sunday Times
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Parker displayed a remarkable lack of conscience about what he had done.
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A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation. Friedrich Nietzsche
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Shooting an Indian from an and-bush is acting up to his own principles, and now we have what you call a lawful war on our hands, the sooner you wipe that disgrace off your conscience, the sounder will be your sleep; if it only come from knowing there is one inimy the less prowling in the woods.
The Deerslayer: Or, the First War-path
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They have shown a ruthless lack of conscience.
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Labour to keep alive in your breast that spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
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Broder's "vacillating" Democrats want the religous Islamic victory mosque, because now the flip-flopping Democrats are religous conscience, and Republicans just say No. What an outrage that our government has put roadblocks in the path of its own citizens trying rebuild their beloved Church destroyed by Islamic extremists, St. Nicholas Greek
LJWorld.com stories: News
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We will not hand over our consciences in return for a hollow promise of safety.
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The state has the same will, the same conscience-voice for good and evil as the Christ; yet it crumbles itself away into dogmaticalness of civil officers against one another.
Uncollected Prose
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Conscience prevailing, he was received at Douai, then sent from Rome by the Jesuits to Bohemia to serve his novitiate, before being reordained in Prague.
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These people have no conscience.
Times, Sunday Times
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You couldn't, in all conscience, ask her to pay the whole bill!
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When ye synne so against the brethern/and wounde thier weake conscience/ye synne againste Christ.
A Treatise of the Cohabitation Of the Faithful with the Unfaithful A Treatise of the Cohabitation Of the Faithful with the Unfaithful by Peter Martyr; Wherunto is Added A Sermon made of the Confessing of Christ and His Gospel and of the Denying of the sam
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Labour to keep alive in your breast that spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
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Surely Claybourn isn't thinking of voting for a third-party candidate in order to salve his own political conscience.
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Oh, sure, nonviolence works against people with conscience.
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Shooting an Indian from an and-bush is acting up to his own principles, and now we have what you call a lawful war on our hands, the sooner you wipe that disgrace off your conscience, the sounder will be your sleep; if it only come from knowing there is one inimy the less prowling in the woods.
The Deerslayer: Or, the First War-path
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And therefore, such peace-makers as these before-mentioned do seldom do much greater good than to quiet their own consciences in the discharge of so great a duty, and to moderate some few, and save them from further guilt, and to leave behind them, when they are dead, a witness against a wilful, self-conceited, unpeaceable world.
The Reformed Pastor
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There is no nonarbitrary way to bar religious conscience alone from politics.
Balderdash
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But finding little encouragement this way for any who could not in conscience join with prelacy, or the prevailing defections of those called the indulged, he took a resolution, and went over among others to Holland (shortly before or after Bothwel) for the further improvement of his studies, where he continued some short time, and then returned home to his native country.
Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies
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My conscience is clear.
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He was a man of strong social conscience, who actively campaigned against poverty in all its forms.
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The abbess of Quedlingberg, who with the four great dignitaries of her chapter, the prioress, the deaness, the sub-chantress, and senior canonness, had that week come to Strasburg to consult the university upon a case of conscience relating to their placket-holes — was ill all the night.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
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But I couldn't possibly in all good conscience and professionalism ignore it.
SOMEBODY
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She was seized by a sudden pang of conscience.
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They'd have said I was only a poor kid, conscience-stricken for having wished the man dead, and that he wouldn't have gone charging into the water if he hadn't been in a belligerent rage.
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Only Madame Hayle was allowed to do that, and the parson's wife, being quite without madame's art of doing as she pleased, had had to submit conscience and compassions to the captain's forbiddal, repeated by the commodore and Hugh.
Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi