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“No, I have no desire for riches. Honest poverty and a conscience, torpid through virtuous inaction, are more to me than corner lots and praise.”

Desire Poverty Honest Conscience Praise Prosperity Corners Riches Virtuous Inaction

Book:Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches

Source: Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches

“If we regulate our conduct according to our own convictions, we may safely disregard the praise or censure of others.”

Ifs May Conscience Praise Conviction Disregard Censure

Author:Blaise Pascal

“He that loses his conscience has nothing left that is worth keeping. Therefore be sure you look to that, and in the next place look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to a good conscience.”

Ifs Looks Values Next Left Loses Conscience Praise Praise God

Author:Izaak Walton

“Conscience, the sense of right, the power of perceiving moral distinctions, the power of discerning between justice and injustice, excellence and baseness, is the highest faculty given us by God, the whole foundation of our responsibility, and our sole capacity for religion. ...God, in giving us conscience, has implanted a principle within us which forbids us to prostrate ourselves before mere power, or to offer praise where we do not discover worth.”

“But what will happen even if we do burn down the Jews synagogues and forbid them publicly to praise God, to pray, to teach, to utter God's name? They will still keep doing it in secret. If we know that they are doing this in secret, it is the same as if they were doing it publicly. for our knowledge of their secret doings and our toleration of them implies that they are not secret after all and thus our conscience is encumbered with it before God.”

Ifs Knows Stills Happens Names Secret Teach Praying Conscience Praise Jew Doings Toleration Praise God Synagogue

Book:On the Jews & Their Lies

Source: On the Jews & Their Lies

“Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.”

Reason Causes Judgment Conscience Praise Blame Exposed Underestimated Undeserving

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Listen to me, Frankenstein. You accuse me of murder; and yet you would, with a satisfied conscience, destroy your own creature. Oh, praise the eternal justice of man!”

Men Justice Creatures Eternal Conscience Murder Praise Satisfied Listen To Me

Book:Frankenstein: ; Or, The Modern Prometheus

Source: Frankenstein: ; Or, The Modern Prometheus

“Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of, a blessing money can't buy.”

“He is wisest, who only gives, True to himself, the best he can: Who drifting on the winds of praise, The inward monitor obeys. And with the boldness that confuses fear Takes in the crowded sail, and lets his conscience steer.”

Giving Fear Wind Conscience Praise Confusion Inward Sail Boldness Crowded Wisest Steers Drifting

Author:John Greenleaf Whittier

“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