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“I desire not to keep my place in this government an hour longer than I may preserve England in its just rights, and may protect the people of God in such a just liberty of their consciences.”

People May Government Desire Hours Liberty Rights Protect Conscience England Preserves

Book:Letters and Speeches

Source: Letters and Speeches

“How awful is that hour when con, science stings.”

Hours Conscience Awful

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“One self-approving hour whole years outweighs.”

Years Self Whole Hours Conscience Self-examination Whole Year Approving

Book:An essay on man. Enlarged and improved by the author. With notes, critical and explanatory

Source: An essay on man. Enlarged and improved by the author. With notes, critical and explanatory

“The villager, born humbly and bred hard, Content his wealth, and poverty his guard, In action simply just, in conscience clear, By guilt untainted, undisturb'd by fear, His means but scanty, and his wants but few, Labor his business, and his pleasure too, Enjoys more comforts in a single hour Than ages give the wretch condemn'd to power.”

Want Giving Mean Hard Age Action Enjoy Born Hours Wealth Pleasure Poverty Clear Comfort Conscience Labor Guilt Wealth And Poverty

Book:The Poetical Works of C. Churchill: In Three Volumes. with the Life of the Author

Source: The Poetical Works of C. Churchill: In Three Volumes. with the Life of the Author

“There is in man a conscience which outlives the sensations the sensations, resolutions, and emotions of the hour, and rises above them all.”

Men Hours Emotion Conscience Resolution Sensations Rise Above

Book:Evidences of Revealed Religion

Source: Evidences of Revealed Religion

“You need companies investing in these countries, so women have employment opportunities, and you also need these forces of conscience. Without the activists, in the United States we would still have child labor, we would still have 16-hour days.”

Needs Children Stills Country States Opportunity Force Hours United Company United States Conscience Labor Investing Employment Activist Child Labor Employment Opportunities

Author:Pietra Rivoli

“What a fate: to be condemned to work for a firm where the slightest negligence at once gave rise to the gravest suspicion! Were all the employees nothing but a bunch of scoundrels, was there not among them one single loyal devoted man who, had he wasted only an hour or so of the firm's time in the morning, was so tormented by conscience as to be driven out of his mind and actually incapable of leaving his bed?”

Men Mind Hours Morning Fate Bed Conscience Leaving Driven Bunch Firm Employee Loyal Devoted Suspicion Incapable Scoundrels Negligence

Author:Franz Kafka

“Hours slide by like minutes. The accumulated clutter of day-to-day existence — the lapses of conscience, the unpaid bills, the bungled opportunities, the dust under the couch, the inescapable prison of your genes — all of it is temporarily forgotten, crowded from your thoughts by an overpowering clarity of purpose and by the seriousness of the task at hand.”

Source: Into the Wild

“In the depths of every heart, there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and revelry above may cause us to forget their existence, and the buried ones, or prisoners whom they hide. But sometimes, and oftenest at midnight, those dark receptacles are flung wide open. In an hour like this, when the mind has a passive sensibility, but no active strength; when the imagination is a mirror, imparting vividness to all ideas, without the power of selecting or controlling them; then pray that your grieves may slumber, and the brotherhood of remorse not break their chain.”

“If once we admit, be it for a single hour or in a single instance, that there can be anything more important than compassion for a fellow human being, then there is no crime against man that we cannot commit with an easy conscience.”

Ifs Men Humans Important Easy Hours Human Beings Compassion Crime Diversity Conscience Fellows Commit Instance

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“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

“Belgium, where there occurred one of the rare appearances of the hero in history, was lifted above herself by the uncomplicated conscience of her King and, faced with the choice to acquiesce or resist, took less than three hours to make her decision, knowing it might be mortal.”

Might Choices Three Hours Decision Knowing Kings Hero Conscience Appearance Mortals Belgium Uncomplicated

Author:Barbara Tuchman