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“From Memorial Day to Labor Day, you may wear white shoes. Not before and not after. As a command, the White Shoe Edict should be clear and simple enough. Do not violate it. In a society in which everything else has become relative, a matter of how it makes you feel, a question between you and your conscience, and an opportunity for you to be really you, this is an absolute.”

Source: Miss Manners' Guide for the Turn-of-the-Millennium

“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

“Sulky labor, and the labor of sorrow are little worth: if you could only shed tranquility over the conscience and infuse joy into the soul, you would do more to make the man a thorough worker than if you could lend him the force of Hercules, or the hundred arms of Briareus.”

Ifs Men Littles Soul Joy Force He Man Arms Sorrow Hundred Conscience Labor Workers Shed Tranquility Thorough Sulky

Author:William Wilberforce

“Health is God's great gift, and we must spend it entirely for Him. Our eyes should see only for God, our feet walk only for Him, our hands labor for Him alone; in short, our entire body should serve God while we still have the time. Then, when He shall take our health and we shall near our last day, our conscience will not reproach us for having misused it.”

Should Stills Body Hands Eye Lasts Walks Feet Conscience Labor Serving God Reproach Last Day Great Gifts Misused

Author:John Bosco

“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

“Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.”

War Humanity Peace Difficult Perfect Greater Sacrifice Demand Conscience Labor Purity Heroic Antiwar Heroism Fidelity Achieving Peace

Book:The Nonviolent Alternative

Source: The Nonviolent Alternative

“We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.”

Stuff Understanding Memories Education Conscience Labor Void

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)

“Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.”

Littles Fire Alive Evolution Integrity Conscience Labor Breasts Sparks 4th Of July Celestial Sparking

Author:George Washington

“With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking his blessing and his help, but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own.”

Love Helping Earth Effort Knowing Land Judging Blessing Conscience Labor Asking Rewards Finals Deeds Inaugural Inaugural Address Work Effort Christian Patriotic

Author:John F. Kennedy

“Material loss can be made up through renewed labor, but the moral wrong which has been inflicted upon the conquered peoples, in the peace dictates, leaves a burning scar on the people's conscience.”

People Has Beens Made Loss Moral Materials Conscience Labor Burning Scar

Author:Hjalmar Schacht