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  • 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
  • I know, you're right, I shouldn't burden you with my conscience.  (source)
    conscience = feeling that makes one want to behave morally
  • "I can only say good night tonight with a clear conscience," said Anne, cuddling luxuriously down among her pillows.  (source)
    conscience = moral judgment of personal behavior
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  • It may be less soothing than a sinless conscience.  (source)
    conscience = judgment of personal behavior as morally right or wrong
  • At first, his punishment was conscience.†  (source)
    conscience = feeling or appraisal of having personally behaved in a morally right or wrong manner
  • But I hope you will heed this: A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.†  (source)
  • "Saving you and others like you is an act of conscience," the woman had said.†  (source)
  • A kind man with a good social conscience.†  (source)
  • They were struggling with their conscience.†  (source)
  • His conscience would not let him continue.†  (source)
  • I usually gave homeless people whatever spare change I had, but I couldn't help feeling like I was trying to ease my conscience about Mom and Dad wandering the streets while I had a steady job and a warm room to come home to.†  (source)
  • And despite his overdeveloped social conscience, he was no tight-lipped, perpetually grim do-gooder who frowned on fun.†  (source)
  • If he had tugs of conscience over what he'd done, he shrugged them away by assuring himself that the lifting of the fugitive-apprehension order was a personal exoneration.†  (source)
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