SHAKSPEARE. 132 CONSCIENCE - DUTY. 2. A peace above all other dignities, A still and quiet conscience. 3. My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, 4. Oh! I have past a miserable night! SHAKSPEARE. SHAKSPEARE 5. Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; The thief doth fear each bush an officer. SHAKSPEARE. 6. Thrice is he arm'd that hath his quarrel just; And he but naked, though lock'd up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted. 7. 8. Leave her to heaven, And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge, Now conscience wakes despair, SHAKSPEARE. SHAKSPEARE. Of what he was, what is, and what must be Worse, if worse deeds, worse sufferings must ensue. MILTON'S Paradise Lost. 9. He that has light within his own clear breast, MILTON'S Comus. 10. Why should not conscience have vacation, As well as other courts o' the nation? Have equal power to adjourn, 11. Appoint appearance, and return? 'Tis ever thus BUTLER'S Hudibras. With noble minds; if chance they slide to folly, Of their severe repentance. 12. Here, here it lies; a lump of lead by day; And in my short, distracted, nightly slumbers, The hag that rides my dreams. 13. One self-approving hour whole years outweighs MASON. DRYDEN. POPE'S Essay on Man. 14. He's arm'd without, that's innocent within. POPE. 15. Knowledge or wealth to few are given, But mark how just the ways of heaven : True joy to all is free. Nor wealth nor knowledge grant the boon, MICKLE. 16. Oh conscience! conscience! man's most faithful friend, Him canst thou comfort, ease, relieve, defend; CRABBE. 134 CONSCIENCE-DUTY. 17. Conscience, what art thou? thou tremendous power! YOUNG'S Brothers. 18. Who does the best his circumstance allows, Does well, acts nobly-angels could no more. YOUNG'S Night Thoughts. 19. The sly informer minutes ev'ry fault, And her dread diary with horror fills. 20. YOUNG'S Night Thoughts. There is no future pang, BYRON'S Manfred. Can deal that justice on the self-condemn'd, 23. A quiet conscience makes one so serene! Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded BYRON'S Don Juan. 24. But, at sixteen, the conscience rarely gnaws BYRON'S Don Juan. 25. So much the better:-I may stand alone, BYRON'S Don Juan. 28. Yet still there whispers the small voice within, BYRON'S Island. 29. That savage spirit, which would lull by wrath 30. Not all the glory, all the praise, That decks the prosperous hero's days, 31. Possessions vanish, and opinions change, BYRON'S Island. MRS. HOLFORD. 32. Trust me, no tortures which the poets feign WORDSWORTH. GIFFORD'S Juvenal. 33. How awful is that hour when conscience stings 136 CONSENT-REFUSAL. 34. This kills his pleasure all the day, To him a loathsome, hated pest. J. T. WATSON. 1. CONSENT-REFUSAL. I cannot love him: Yet I suppose him virtuous, know him noble, Do I not in plainest truth SHAKSPEARE. 2. Tell you-I do not, nor I cannot love you? SHAKSPEARE. 3. He might have took his answer long ago. SHAKSPEARE. 4. Repulse upon repulse met ever Yet gives not o'er, tho' desperate of success. MILTON. 5. If you oblige me suddenly to choose, My choice is made—and I must you refuse. DRYDEN. 6. Take my esteem, if you on that can live; But, frankly, sir, 't is all I have to give. DRYDEN. 7. Love is not in our power, Nay, what seems stranger, is not in our choice; FROWDE. 8. 'Twas whisper'd balm-'t was sunshine spoken! MOORE. |