Sample sentences for CONSCIENCE

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Definition

feeling or appraisal of having personally behaved in a morally right or wrong manner

I have a guilty conscience and want to make it right.

conscience = moral appraisal of personal behavior

I will vote as my conscience demands.

conscience = feeling or what is morally right

Martin Luther King, Jr. was the conscience of his generation.

conscience = feeling that makes one want to behave morally

On my left shoulder, the devil is tempting me, but on my right shoulder, an angel is appealing to my conscience.

conscience = sense of what is morally right and wrong

Please take note our conscience is dear.
Eudora Welty -- The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
But apparently that action preyed on King's conscience.
Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Lincoln
Then, as death approached, it must have worked on Ghosh's conscience to be the keeper of this letter.
Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone
I have a clear conscience about my role in the war.
Chris Kyle -- American Sniper
My conscience is at rest.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- Crime and Punishment
Your conscience will never let you rest.
Joseph Heller -- Catch-22
Let him discourse; it will ease his conscience, I am satisfied with having defeated him in his own castle.
Edgar Allan Poe -- The Murders in the Rue Morgue
But if my conscience tells me that I am right, is not that enough?
Theodore Dreiser -- An American Tragedy
Everything in order, everything clean, everything calm, and that solid peace of a conscience without memory.
Isabel Allende -- The House of Spirits
Was it a vow of repentance that had just escaped from this man's conscience ... .
Jules Verne -- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
It is so wretched, forced to beg my living, And a bad conscience sharper misery giving!
Goethe (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) -- Faust
If not for Murtagh's conscience, you would both be trapped in Galbatorix's service even now.
Christopher Paolini -- Brisingr
Every man must answer these questions, according to his conscience and understanding.
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay -- The Federalist Papers — Modern English Edition 2
I am the forest's conscience, but remember the forest eats itself and lives forever.
Barbara Kingsolver -- The Poisonwood Bible
Grabeau, my conscience, my very good friend.
Alexs Pate -- Amistad
A democracy that has no George Norris to point to—no monument of individual conscience in a sea of popular rule—is not worthy to bear the name.
John F. Kennedy -- Profiles in Courage

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