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“One wonders that there can be found a man courageous enough to occupy the post. It is a matter of meditation. Having given it a few minutes I come to the conclusion in the serenity of my heart and the peace of my conscience that he must be either an extreme megalomaniac or an utterly unconscious being.”

Men Heart Matter Enough Found Given Wonder Meditation Minutes My Heart Conscience Extremes Conclusion Posts Unconscious Courageous Serenity Megalomaniacs

Book:Greatest Works of Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness, Nostromo, The Duel, Lord Jim, Victory, The Shadow-Line, The Arrow of Gold, The Secret Agent, The Nigger of the Narcissus & Under Western Eyes: Classics of World Literature from One of the Greatest English Novelists (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)

Source: Greatest Works of Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness, Nostromo, The Duel, Lord Jim, Victory, The Shadow-Line, The Arrow of Gold, The Secret Agent, The Nigger of the Narcissus & Under Western Eyes: Classics of World Literature from One of the Greatest English Novelists (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)

“More and more it seems to me that the philosopher, being of necessity a man of tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, has always found himself, and had to find himself, in contradiction to his today: his enemy was ever the ideal of today. So far all these extraordinary furtherers of men whom one calls philosophers, though they themselves have rarely felt like friends of wisdom but rather like disagreeable fools and dangerous question marks, have found their task, their hard, unwanted, inescapable task, but eventually also the greatness of their task, in being the bad conscience of their time.”

“Though I never scruple a lie to serve my Master, it hurts one's conscience to be found out!”

Lying Found Hurt Masters Conscience It Hurts Scruples

Book:The Rivals: A Comedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre Royal in Covent-Garden

Source: The Rivals: A Comedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre Royal in Covent-Garden

“The paths by which people journey toward happiness lie in part through the world about them and in part through the experience of their souls. On the one hand, there is the happiness which comes from wealth, honor, the enjoyment of life, from health, culture, science, or art; and, on the other hand, there is the happiness which is to be found in a good conscience, in virtue, work, philanthropy, religion, devotion to great ideas and great deeds.”

People World Art Ideas Soul Hands Lying Culture Found Wealth Virtue Path Journey Honor Conscience Deeds Devotion Enjoyment Philanthropy Great Idea

Book:Happiness - Essays On The Meaning Of Life

Source: Happiness - Essays On The Meaning Of Life

“Spend your time in nothing which you know must be repented of; in nothing on which you might not pray for the blessing of God; in nothing which you could not review with a quiet conscience on your dying bed; in nothing which you might not safely and properly be found doing if death should surprise you in the act.”

Ifs Knows Should Might Found Dying Praying Blessing Bed Quiet Conscience Surprise Reviews

Author:Richard Baxter

“Tis a blushing shame-faced spirit that mutinies in a man's bosom. It fills a man full of obstacles. It made me once restore a purse of gold that (by chance) I found. It beggars any man that keeps it.”

Men Made Spirit Found Chance Conscience Gold Shame Obstacles Bosoms Beggar Purses Blushing Mutiny

Book:First Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III

Source: First Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III

“I did not weep, and it pained me that i could not weep. But I had no more tears. And, in the depths of my being, in the recesses of my weakened conscience, could I have searched it, I might perhaps have found something like--free at last!”

Might Lasts Found Tears Conscience Depth Recess

Book:Night

Source: Night

“I found myself starting architecture with a deep social, Jewish, liberal conscience, and the belief that architecture is for the people. It was a do-gooder base; I was born and raised that way. I was for blacks, whites, Italians, Poles, whatever.”

People Way Found Belief Social Born Conscience Raised Starting Architecture Born And Raised

Author:Frank Gehry

“If I am to serve as an instrument of deceit, at least let it be with a clear conscience. I do not want to be considered either so affectionate or so loyal a servant as to be found fit to betray anyone.”

Ifs Want Found Clear Fit Conscience Instruments Servant Deceit Betray Loyal Affectionate Clear Conscience

Book:Complete Essays

Source: Complete Essays

“The kid I was when I first left home Was looking for his freedom and a life of his own But the freedom that he found wasn't quite as sweet When the truth was known I have prayed for America I was made for America I can't let go till she comes around Until the land of the free Is awake and can see And until her conscience has been found.”

Firsts Has Beens Made I Can Home Kids America Found Left Peace Known Land Sweet Letting Go Conscience Awake Land Of The Free Can't Let Go

Author:Jackson Browne

“We are bound to maintain public liberty, and, by the example of our own systems, to convince the world that order and law, religion and morality, the rights of conscience, the rights of persons, and the rights of property, may all be preserved and secured, in the most perfect manner, by a government entirely and purely elective. If we fail in this, our disaster will be significant, and will furnish an argument, stronger than has yet been found, in support of those opinions which maintain that government can rest safely on nothing but power and coercion.”

Source: A Discourse, Delivered at Plymouth, December 22, 1820: In Commemoration of the First Settlement of New-England

“Since Christ is the Word of God and the Truth of God, he may be received even by those who have not heard of his manifestation in the flesh... We have, therefore. the hope that even among the heathen there may be some, like Socrates, who, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit working through the truth of nature and conscience, have found the way of life and salvation.”

Way May Spirit Found Christ Heard Holy Conscience Salvation Flesh Guidance Manifestation Holy Spirit Word Of God Heathen Truth Of God

Book:Systematic Theology: A Compendium and Commonplace Book Designed for the Use of Theological Students

Source: Systematic Theology: A Compendium and Commonplace Book Designed for the Use of Theological Students

“It's funny: I always imagined when I was a kid that adults had some kind of inner toolbox full of shiny tools: the saw of discernment, the hammer of wisdom, the sandpaper of patience. But then when I grew up I found that life handed you these rusty bent old tools - friendships, prayer, conscience, honesty - and said 'do the best you can with these, they will have to do'. And mostly, against all odds, they do.”

Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

“All I could think of was that the teachers must've found the illegal stash of candy I'd been selling out of my dorms room. Or maybe they'd realized I got my Essay on Tom Sawyer from the Internet without ever reading the book and now they were going to take away my grade. Or worse, they were going to make me read the book.”

Source: Percy Jackson: The Complete Series

“What would it be like if I had something to defend - a home, a country, a family - and I found myself attacked by these ghostly men, these trusting boys? How do you fight an enemy who fights with neither enmity nor anger but in submission to orders from superiors, without protest and without conscience?”

Ifs Men Country Home Would Be Order Fighting Found Family Enemy Boys Conscience Anger Superiors Protest Submission Attacking Defenders Enmity Faceless

Book:The Glass Palace: A Novel

Source: The Glass Palace: A Novel

“But there was no hiding from Conscience. Not in new homes and new cars. In travel. In meditation or frantic activity. In children, in good works. On tiptoes or bended knee. In a big career. Or a small cabin. It would find you. The past always did. Which was why... it was vital to be aware of actions in the present. Because the present became the past, and the past grew. And got up, and followed you. And found you... Who wouldn't be afraid of this?”

Source: The Brutal Telling: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel

“The word "truth" itself ceases to have its old meaning. It describes no longer something to be found, with the individual conscience as the sole arbiter of whether in any particular instance the evidence (or the standing of those proclaiming it) warrants a belief; it becomes something to be laid down by authority, something which has to believed in the interest of unity of the organized effort and which may have to be altered as the exigencies of this organized effort require it.”

May Found Individual Belief Interest Effort Particular Authority Conscience Evidence Standing Unity Cease Instance Organized Sole Altered Warrants Proclaiming Arbiter

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“There was a message written in pencil on the tiles by the roller towel. This was it: What is the purpose of life? Trout plundered his pockets for a pen or pencil. He had an answer to the question. But he had nothing to write with, not even a burnt match. So he left the question unanswered, but here is what he would have written, if he had found anything to write with: To be the eyes and ears and conscience of the Creator of the Universe, you fool.”

“The other thing Aron found about sensitive people is that sometimes they're highly empathic. It's as if they have thinner boundaries separating them from other people's emotions and from the tragedies and cruelties of the world. They tend to have unusually strong consciences. ... they're acutely aware of the consequences of a lapse in their own behavior.”

People Ifs World Sometimes Found Strong Emotion Behavior Conscience Consequence Tragedy Boundaries Cruelty Sensitive Separating Lapses

Book:Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

Source: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“A good conscience will be found a pleasant visitor at our bedside in a dying hour.”

Found Hours Dying Inspirational Life Conscience Pleasant Visitors

Book:Holiness: It's Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots

Source: Holiness: It's Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots

“The God in whose hands are all our days and ways, did cast into my hand (one day) a book of Martin Luther's ; it was his Comment on the Galatians! ... I found my condition in his experience so largely and profoundly handled, as if his book had been written out of my heart ... I do prefer this book of Martin Luther upon the Galatians, excepting the Holy Bible, before all the books that ever I have seen, as most fit for a wounded conscience.”

Ifs Way Heart Book Hands Found Written Conditions My Heart Fit Holy One Day Conscience Casts Comment Wounded Luther Holy Bible Galatians

Author:John Bunyan

“He has great tranquillity of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men. He will easily be content and pacified, whose conscience is pure. You are not holier if you are praised, nor the more worthless if you are found fault with. What you are, that you are; neither by word can you be made greater than what you are in the sight of God.”

Ifs Men Heart Made Care Found Greater Pure Findings Conscience Sight Praise Faults Who Cares Worthless Tranquillity Fault Finding

Author:Thomas a Kempis