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Conscience

noun

Motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person's thoughts and actions. Synonyms: moral sense, scruples, sense of right and wrong.

Conformity to one's own sense of right conduct.

A feeling of shame when you do something immoral.

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"Conscience" Quotes from Famous Books

... won't do it," said Mr. Middleton, abashed at Achmed's reproof, a reproof his conscience told ...

— The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton • Wardon Allan Curtis

... and the achievement of it also a contribution to character. So St. Paul assures us that all things work together for good for those that love God. "The willingness," says Hocking, "to confront every evil, in ourselves and outside ourselves, with the blunt, factual conscience of Science; willingness to pay the full causal price for the removal of the blemish; this kind of integrity can never be dispensed ...

— Modern Religious Cults and Movements • Gaius Glenn Atkins

... occurred to him that although her English was perfect, she might be an utter stranger to the country, unthinkably abandoned, with sufficient means to salve her betrayer's conscience. ...

— Margarita's Soul - The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty • Ingraham Lovell

... learn that other nations have the right to live, and that no country can wrong another through force of arms without suffering for it in the end. In a blunted conscience, in the loss of the sympathy of the rest of the world, in a lessening of the Christ-spirit of doing good to others, the nation which resorts to force to gratify its own selfish ends, like the individual, ...

— The World War and What was Behind It - The Story of the Map of Europe • Louis P. Benezet

... it used to do at nights in his lifetime, to call Dougal to help to turn him in his bed. Dougal said, that being alone with the dead on that floor of the tower (for naebody cared to wake Sir Robert Redgauntlet like another corpse), he had never daured to answer the call, but that now his conscience checked him for neglecting his duty; for, "though death breaks service," said MacCallum, "it shall never break my service to Sir Robert; and I will answer his next whistle, so be you ...

— The Haunters & The Haunted - Ghost Stories And Tales Of The Supernatural • Various

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