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Sat 5 Oct, 2002 08:11 pm
'Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.'
~ H. L. Mencken
'Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.'
~ Isaac Asimov
'The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.'
~ Dorothy Nevill
'Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.'
~ Henry David Thoreau
'What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?'
~ Dr. Robert Schuller
'The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.'
~ Thomas Paine
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." - George Santayana
Conscience for me comes in the voice of my mom even though she died in 1989. It starts out this way, Joanne Dorel Sherburne ... .
Things said or done long years ago,
Or things I did not do or say
But thought that I might say or do,
Weigh me down, and not a day
But something is recalled,
My conscience or my vanity appalled.
.... William Butler Yeats
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