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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.
- Martin Luther King, Jr. was the conscience of his generation.
- On my left shoulder, the devil is tempting me, but on my right shoulder, an angel is appealing to my conscience.
- 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
conscience = feeling or what is morally right
conscience = feeling that makes one want to behave morally
conscience = sense of what is morally right and wrong
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