There is no witness so terrible, no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.
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SOPHOCLES There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible as the conscience that dwells in the heart o...
POLYBIUS A guilty conscience needs no accuser.
ANONYMOUS A guilty conscience needs no accuser.
UNKNOWN There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.
FRENCH PROVERB There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience
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ORISON SWETT MARDEN There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of so...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living withi...
CALVIN COOLIDGE There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living withi...
CALVIN COOLIDGE There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
EVERETT DIRKSEN There is no dignity
quite so impressive,
and no independence
quite so important,
CALVIN COOLIDGE No guilt is forgotten so long as the conscience still knows of it.
STEFAN ZWEIG A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do...
SENECA There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
JAMES JOYCE There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from lack of work.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from lack of work
CHARLES H. SPURGEON There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No,...
SAMUEL JOHNSON There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.
ANDREW CARNEGIE There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason...
CHARLES MONTESQUIEU There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU I wrote to you for a year and you never wrote back. T
rang you over and over again and you woul...
MELINA MARCHETTA I wrote to you for a year and you never wrote back. I rang you over and over again and you would nev...
MELINA MARCHETTA Darkness dwells within even the best of us. In the worst of us, darkness not only dwells but reins.
DEAN KOONTZ God dwells within you, as you.
ELIZABETH GILBERT He was so terrible that he was no longer terrible, only dehumanized.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
ORSON WELLES There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.
THOMAS W. HIGGINSON There is nothing in the whole frame of man which seems to me so unaccountable as that thing called c...
ROBERT BURNS No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.
JOHN RUSKIN No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.
JOHN RUSKIN No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish
JOHN RUSKIN There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.
WILLIAM HAZLITT My heart knows your heart, love,
inside and out,
for it is there a part of me dwells,
just as a part...
JILL ANZINGER There's no pillow as soft as a clear conscience.
GLEN CAMPBELL There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.
DANIEL WEBSTER There are no bonds so strong as those which are formed by suffering together.
HARRIET ANN JACOBS There is no advertisement as powerful as a positive reputation traveling fast.
BRIAN KOSLOW There is no celebrity quite as powerful as the local, homegrown celebrity.
TONY WILSON Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no persuasion move thee, to do anything which tho...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
JOSH BILLINGS There is no Mystery so great as Misery.
OSCAR WILDE I said "No"… Which means "No"… so it follows and as it follows "No"….
DEYTH BANGER There is no such thing as a dirty word. Nor is there a word so powerful, that it's going to send the...
FRANK ZAPPA There is no course of life so weak and Scottish as that which is ordered by orders, method, and disc...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discip...
PAULA POUNDSTONE There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discip...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE There is no thing known as bad luck. There is luck, or no luck at all.
JEFFREY FRY I don't know what to say, so far... there is some evidence which say that "Reincarnation", exist, bu...
DEYTH BANGER Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will m...
SAMUEL JOHNSON There is no index so sure as the voice.
TANCRED Conscience is no more than the dead speaking to us.
JIM CARROLL There is no conscience in a real war.
TOBA BETA There is no disappointment so numbing...as someone no better than you achieving more.
JOSEPH HELLER I've that within for which there are no plasters.
DAVID GARRICK I've that within - for which there are no plasters.
DAVID GARRICK As there is no worldly gain without some loss so there is no worldly loss without some gain.
QUARIUS As there is no worldly gain without some loss so there is no worldly loss without some gain.
QUARIUS Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs n...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA The truth may roar, but it's roaring does not terrify the blameless. Guilty conscience needs neither...
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JAMES SO Even though the interest rate rise had been discounted, a half percentage point rise in local intere...
JAMES SO The index is revolving around 16,000 and trying to establish further support at that level.
JAMES SO The whole psychology of the market has changed since the U.S. unemployment figures on Friday. All th...
JAMES SO Sentiment on junior high-tech stocks and China high-tech stocks is quite negative for the time being...
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JAMES SO Interest-rate sensitive stocks are doing a bit better today because the core consumer price index da...
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SO TAGUCHI As no scripture is of private interpretation, so is there no feeling in a human heart which exists i...
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P. T. BARNUM There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. -Josh Billings.
JOSH BILLINGS There is no Past, so long as Books shall live!
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NO DOUBT It must be an odd person indeed that can say for certain they are normal.
INITIALLY NO Take this drink as a token of
my disrepute and spin that hay tonight and tomorrow it will be sh...
INITIALLY NO Take this drink as a token of my disrepute and spin that hay tonight and tomorrow it will be shining...
INITIALLY NO It's nice to finish with a great shot like that. It was a nice way to finish up. It looked pretty go...
DONALD NO I was struggling on the greens (early on the back nine) and had lost a little bit of confidence and ...
DONALD NO They tell me to be quiet
When I’d rather cause a riot
And have everyone screaming
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INITIALLY NO We had no doubt that they were guilty.
JUROR NO We did the right thing for Mary. It was not an easy decision, and it was not unanimous at first.
JUROR NO Before, I said I could be fair, but I don't think I can.
JUROR NO We actually challenged one another in the deliberation room. We challenged the issues, and we came t...
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INITIALLY NO Love is a powerful force. There is nothing in this world, no other energy, as powerful as the force ...
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GEORGE BERNARD SHAW No question is so difficult to answer as that which the answer is obvious.
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TAPAN GHOSH happiness dwells within
ANGELICA NIGHTINGALE The prism through which you experience life is so unique. There is no objective experience.
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SOPHOCLES To touch the quick.
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A brave man dead, not even though you hate him.
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SOPHOCLES One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.
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B...
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