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“We look for some reward of our endeavors and are disappointed that not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns our ineffectual efforts to do well. Our frailties are invincible, our virtues barren; the battle goes sore against us to the going down of the sun.”

Wells Looks Effort Sun Virtue Battle Conscience Optimism Rewards Endeavor Pessimism Disappointed Crowns Invincible Barren Frailty

Book:Collected Memoirs, Travel Sketches and Island Literature of Robert Louis Stevenson: Autobiographical Writings and Essays by the prolific Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer, author of Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped & Catriona

Source: Collected Memoirs, Travel Sketches and Island Literature of Robert Louis Stevenson: Autobiographical Writings and Essays by the prolific Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer, author of Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped & Catriona

“You don't have to signal a social conscience by looking like a frump. Lace knickers won't hasten the holocaust, you can ban the bomb in a feather boa just as well as without, and a mild interest in the length of hemlines doesn't necessarily disqualify you from reading Das Kapital and agreeing with every word.”

Wells Reading Social Interest Conscience Feminist Bombs Length Feminine Holocaust Signals Feathers Bans Lace Knickers

Author:Elizabeth Bibesco

“A business must have a conscience as well as a counting house.”

Wells House Business Conscience Witty Counting Miscellaneous

Author:Montague Burton

“Honestly this is not going to change unless the people who want to prevent these kinds of mass shootings from taking place feel at least as passionate, at least as mobilized and well-funded as the NRA and the gun manufacturers are because the politics in Congress are such where even members of Congress who know better are fearful if they vote their conscience and support common sense measures like background checks, they're worried they're going to lose.”

“In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me.”

Believe Wells Body Suffering Speak I Believe Conscience Criticism Critics Rail Baggage

Author:William Congreve

“Both humans and dogs love to play well into adulthood, and individuals from both species occasionally display evidence of having a conscience.”

Humans Wells Play Funny Individual Dog Conscience Evidence Species Display Adulthood My Dog Puppy Canine Dog Love Man And Dog Love My Dog Humans And Dogs Dog Best Friend

Book:Mondo Canine

Source: Mondo Canine

“It is one thing to have sin alarmed only by convictions, and another to have it crucified by converting grace. Many, because they have been troubled in conscience for their sins, think well of their case, miserably mistaking conviction for conversion.”

Thinking Wells Has Beens Sin Cases Grace One Thing Conscience Conviction Conversion Converting

Book:An Alarm to Unconverted Sinners

Source: An Alarm to Unconverted Sinners

“The flight from study and awareness is much too common in a world that throws too many confusing pictures to the individual. For the sake of our democracy, based on freedom and individualism, we have to bring ourselves back to study again and again. Otherwise, we can become easy victims of a well-planned verbal attack on our minds and our consciences.”

World Mind Wells Individual Easy Freedom Common Democracy Study Awareness Conscience Victim Sake Individuality Flight Individualism Again And Again Confusing

Author:Joost Meerloo

“The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable—namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental and filial affections being here included, would inevitably acquire a moral sense or conscience, as soon as its intellectual powers had become as well, or nearly as well developed, as in man. For, firstly, the social instincts lead an animal to take pleasure in the society of its fellows, to feel a certain amount of sympathy with them, and to perform various services for them.”

Source: Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution

“If you facilitate your subordinates' steady progress in meaningful work, make that progress salient to them, and treat them well, they will experience the emotions, motivations, and perceptions necessary for great performance.”

Ifs Wells Motivation Leadership Emotion Progress Perception Conscience Performances Treats Meaningful Steady Subordinates Facilitate Meaningful Work Great Performance Steady Progress

Author:Teresa Amabile

“People who believe in themselves and in a cause greater than themselves can achieve great things-as long as they have a well-intentioned leader to point them in the right direction.”

People Believe Wells Long Causes Leadership Leader Greater Achieve Conscience Great Things Right Direction

Book:The Leader's Pocket Guide: 101 Indispensable Tools, Tips, and Techniques for Any Situation

Source: The Leader's Pocket Guide: 101 Indispensable Tools, Tips, and Techniques for Any Situation

“One half of the world's people live on less than two dollars a day. This should concern our national security policy as well as our conscience.”

People World Should Wells Two Half Security Policy Conscience Concern Dollars National Security One Half

Author:Lee H. Hamilton

“It is contrary to the principles of reason and justice that any should be compelled to contribute to the maintenance of a church with which their consciences will not permit them to join, and from which they can derive no benefit; for remedy whereof, and that equal liberty as well religious as civil, may be universally extended to all the good people of this commonwealth.”

“A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents.”

Wells Doe Remember Politics Politician Conscience Constituents

Author:Melvin Laird