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Sunday, March 22, 2020

Post #3011

Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
—Pliny
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Monday, November 18, 2019

Post #2961

Conscience is a great ledger book in which all our offences are written and registered, and which time reveals to the sense and feeling of the offender.
—Robert Burton

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Friday, November 15, 2019

Post #2960

A man of integrity will never listen to any reason against conscience.
—Alec Douglas-Home
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Thursday, November 14, 2019

Post #2959

No evil is intolerable but a guilty conscience.
—William Ellery Channing

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Thursday, January 31, 2019

Post #2754

The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.
—John Calvin

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Thursday, December 21, 2017

Post #2574

A man's own conscience is his sole tribunal, and he should care no more for that phantom 'opinion' than he should fear meeting a ghost if he cross the churchyard at dark.
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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Tuesday, October 24, 2017

Post #2432

Conscience is the voice of God in the soul.
—James H. Aughey 
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Thursday, April 20, 2017

Post #2319

We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
—Seneca

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Wednesday, February 15, 2017

Post #2273

A man can bear a world's contempt when he has that within which says he's worthy. When he contemns him self, there burns the hell.
—Alexander Smith
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Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Post #2192

Not every man who has an easy place has a soft pillow.
—Unknown
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Thursday, May 19, 2016

Post #2079

He who can feel ashamed will not readily do wrong.
—The Talmud
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Friday, April 15, 2016

Post #2055

Make clean thy conscience; hide thee there.
—Francis Quarles

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Friday, February 12, 2016

Post #2010

If you would relish food, labour for it before you take it; if you enjoy clothing, pay for it before you wear it; if you would sleep soundly, take a clear conscience to bed with you.
—Benjamin Franklin

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Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Post #1912

The conscience is the inviolable asylum of the liberty of man.
—Napoleon

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Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Post #1389

The Unknown is an ocean. What is conscience? The compass of the Unknown.
—Joseph Cook 
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The Penalty of Leadership

In every field of human endeavor, he that is first must perpetually live in the white light of publicity. Whether the leadership be vested in a man or in a manufactured product, emulation and envy are ever at work. In art, in literature, in music, in industry, the reward and the punishment are always the same. The reward is widespread recognition; the punishment, fierce denial and detraction. When a man’s work becomes a standard for the whole world, it also becomes a target for the shafts of the envious few. If his work be mediocre, he will be left severely alone – if he achieve a masterpiece, it will set a million tongues a -wagging. Jealousy does not protrude its forked tongue at the artist who produces a commonplace painting. Whatsoever you write, or paint, or play, or sing, or build, no one will strive to surpass or to slander you unless your work be stamped with the seal of genius. Long, long after a great work or a good work has been done, those who are disappointed or envious, continue to cry out that it cannot be done. Spiteful little voices in the domain of art were raised against our own Whistler as a mountebank, long after the big world had acclaimed him its greatest artistic genius. Multitudes flocked to Bayreuth to worship at the musical shrine of Wagner, while the little group of those whom he had dethroned and displaced argued angrily that he was no musician at all. The little world continued to protest that Fulton could never build a steamboat, while the big world flocked to the river banks to see his boat steam by. The leader is assailed because he is a leader, and the effort to equal him is merely added proof of that leadership. Failing to equal or to excel, the follower seeks to depreciate and to destroy – but only confirms once more the superiority of that which he strives to supplant. There is nothing new in this. It is as old as the world and as old as human passions – envy, fear, greed, ambition, and the desire to surpass. And it all avails nothing. If the leader truly leads, he remains – the leader. Master-poet, master-painter, master-workman, each in his turn is assailed, and each holds his laurels through the ages. That which is good or great makes itself known, no matter how loud the clamor of denial. That which deserves to live — lives.
written by Theodore F. MacManus

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