What a tricky and uncomfortable thing is conscience, that nearly always begins to trouble us at the moment of, or after, the event, not before, when it might be of some use.
Sometimes a woman's love of being loved gets the better of her conscience, and though she is agonized at the thought of treating a man cruelly, she encourages him to love her while she doesn't love him at all. Then, when she sees him suffering,...
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Thomas Hardy
Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.
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Richard Bach
I do not believe anyone can be perfectly well, who has a brain and a heart
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.
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Mark Twain
Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
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Leo Tolstoy
More Quotes By H. Rider Haggard
Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.
Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water it runs between his fingers, and yet, if his hands be but wet as though with dew, behold a generation of fools call out, 'See,...
Yet man dies not whilst the world, at once his mother and his monument, remains. His name is lost, indeed, but the breath he breathed still stirs the pine-tops on the mountains, the sound of the words he spoke yet echoes on through space; the...
And now let us love and take that which is given us, and be happy; for in the grave there is no love and no warmth, nor any touching of the lips. Nothing perchance, or perchance but bitter memories of what might have been.
That which is alive hath known death, and that which is dead can never die, for in the Circle of the Spirit life is naught and death is naught. Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.
