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“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

“My legal wife is to me dead; the only ecclesiastical authority I recognise pronounces me free; the attacks and threats of men do not disturb me. I am acting according to a clear conscience, and am doing hurt to no man. For my conduct, I will answer to my maker.”

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Author:William the Silent

“A dirty player is somebody who ultimately is trying to hurt somebody. There's a huge difference. There's no gray in that. Like, you have no conscience, no nothing, no guilt. I don't have that mean streak in me. I don't play angry. It's not anger.”

Trying Mean Play Differences Hurt Player Huge Like You Conscience Angry Guilt Dirty Gray Streaks

Author:Ndamukong Suh

“The godly man contrarily is afraid of nothing; not of God, because he knows Him his best friend, and will not hurt him; not of Satan, because he cannot hurt him; not of afflictions, because he knows they come from a loving God, and end in his good; not of the creatures, since "the very stones in the field are in league with Him;" not of himself, since his conscience is at peace.”

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Author:Joseph Hall

“It is the duty of all men in society, publicly, and at stated seasons, to worship the SUPREME BEING, the great Creator and Preserver of the universe. And no subject shall be hurt, molested, or restrained, in his person, liberty, or estate, for worshipping GOD in the manner most agreeable to the dictates of his own conscience; or for his religious profession or sentiments; provided he doth not disturb the public peace, or obstruct others in their religious worship.”

Source: The Political Writings of John Adams: Representative Selections

“A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good.”

Feels Hurt Conscience Sarcastic

Author:Steven Wright

“Conscience is that which hurts when everything else feels marvelous.”

Feels Hurt Conscience Marvelous

Author:Leopold Stokowski

“What we really need to avoid is this epidemic of false positivism and false happiness, which says if it hurts, it must be bad. Sometimes it hurts because you have a conscience.”

Ifs Needs Sometimes Hurt Conscience It Hurts Epidemics Positivism Sometimes It Hurts False Happiness

Author:Marianne Williamson

“If we train our conscience, it kisses us while it hurts”

Ifs Hurt Kissing Conscience Train It Hurts

Book:Basic Writings of Nietzsche

Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche

“When Luke had descended into the River Styx, he would've had to focus on something important that would hold him to his mortal life. Otherwise he would've dissolved. I had seen Annabeth, and I had a feeling he had too. He had pictured that scene Hestia showed me—of himself in the good old days with Thalia and Annabeth, when he promised they would be a family. Hurting Annabeth in battle had shocked him into remembering that promise. It had allowed his mortal conscience to take over again, and defeat Kronos. His weak spot—his Achilles heel—had saved us all”