61 Metaphors for conscience

A clear conscience is the best of nerve tonics.

Conscience or Interest be 't, or both in one, The Panther answer'd in a surly tone, The first commands me to maintain the crown, The last forbids to throw my barriers down.

An intelligent conscience is a luxury a man in my position can't afford to have."

A sentimental conscience is the most tiresome of all altruists, and wilfully to indulge in remorse that we have not justly incurred is to blunt our consciences for real offences.

Conscience, then, is a witness respecting the identity of the will and the reason effected by the self-subordination of the will, or self, to the reason, as equal to, or representing, the will of God.

His conscience, his religion, Margaret was, His dear heart's confessor, a heart within that heart, And all dear things summ'd up in her alone.

Conscience is a principle natural to men; and the work that it doth naturally, or of itself, is to give an apprehension of right and wrong, and to suggest to the mind the relation that there is between right and wrong and a retribution.

"A good conscience is a continual feast," but a galled conscience is as great a torment as can possibly happen, a still baking oven, (so Pierius in his Hieroglyph, compares it) another hell.

I haven't done anything wrong that I know ofmy conscience is clearand yet, I'm suffering.

All men are engaged either on this side or that; and though conscience is the common word, which is given by both, yet if a writer fall among enemies, and cannot give the marks of their conscience, he is knocked down before the reasons of his own are heard.

The conscience is the ego putting itself in the place of another who has been injured.

"Against the doctrine here maintained, that conscience as well as reason, is a natural faculty.

He kept up apologies to his conscience regularly also; but it must have become clear that his conscience was not a fire to make him boil; it was merely a few coals to keep him bubbling.

o' me; and it's dirty work enough I've done, widout the doin' of any more: me conscience is a sore throuble to me about the other job.

What has so troubled my logical conscience is not so much the absolute by itself as the whole class of suppositions of which it is the supreme example, collective experiences namely, claiming identity with their constituent parts, yet experiencing things quite differently from these latter.

Conscience and imagination were the pioneers who made earth habitable for the human spirit; they are still its lawgivers and where they have lodged their treasures, there is wisdom.

The younger, whose conscience was the most sensitive, first made the discovery, and immediately began trying to remedy the evil, and to induce her sister to aid her in the endeavor.

In this there are several degrees: to pay every man his own is the common law of honesty: but to do good to all mankind, is the chancery law of honesty: and this chancery court is in every man's breast, where his conscience is a Lord Chancellor.

Conscience is a good tutor to tell a man on which side to act, but she leaves the question of How to act to every man's prudence and judgment.

Conscience may be a giant; that makes a Socrates or a Jesus: it may be a dwarf; that makes an Atreus or a Judas.

A quiet conscience is, after all, a great possession, and for the sake of a quiet conscience I will remain here, and you will be able to understand my scruple when you think how helpless my people are, and how essential is the kindly guidance of the priest.

My conscience is my crown, Contented thoughts my rest; My heart is happy in itself, My bliss is in my breast.

His conscience was a thing that would have laid upon his hands, and he was forced to put it off, and makes great use of honesty to profess upon.

'Conscience is conscience, to be sure,' said Curlydown 'I don't think that I'm given to be afraid,' said Bagwax.

CONSCIENCE is a spiritual virtue which flows from love towards God, and love towards the neighbor, 164.

61 Metaphors for  conscience