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Conscience Quotes by William Shakespeare
- O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me!
- Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution Is slicked o'er with the pale cast of thought
- Policy sits above conscience.
- A wicked conscience mouldeth goblins swift as frenzy thoughts.
- Love is too young to know what conscience is.
- Conscience doth make cowards of us all.
- The Play's the Thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King.
- I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.
- Don't judge a man's conscience by looking at his face cause he may have a bad heart.
- My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain. Perjury, perjury,…
- Men must learn now with pity to dispense; For policy sits above conscience.
- Every subject's duty is the King's; but every subject's soul is his own. Therefore, should every soldier in the wars do as every sick man…
- Conscience is but a word that cowards use, devised at first to keep the strong in awe
- Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
- Who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscovered country from whose…
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