All 10 Uses of
conscience
in
The Merchant of Venice
- Certainly my conscience will serve me to run from this Jew my master.†
Scene 2.2conscience = feeling or appraisal of having personally behaved in a morally right or wrong manner
- My conscience says 'No; take heed, honest Launcelot, take heed, honest Gobbo' or, as aforesaid, 'honest Launcelot Gobbo, do not run; scorn running with thy heels.'†
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- Well, my conscience, hanging about the neck of my heart, says very wisely to me 'My honest friend Launcelot, being an honest man's son'—or rather 'an honest woman's son';—for indeed my father did something smack, something grow to, he had a kind of taste;—well, my conscience says 'Launcelot, budge not.'†
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- Well, my conscience, hanging about the neck of my heart, says very wisely to me 'My honest friend Launcelot, being an honest man's son'—or rather 'an honest woman's son';—for indeed my father did something smack, something grow to, he had a kind of taste;—well, my conscience says 'Launcelot, budge not.'†
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- 'Budge not,' says my conscience.†
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- 'Conscience,' say I, (you counsel well.'†
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- To be ruled by my conscience, I should stay with the Jew my master, who, God bless the mark!†
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- Certainly the Jew is the very devil incarnal; and, in my conscience, my conscience is but a kind of hard conscience, to offer to counsel me to stay with the Jew.†
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- Certainly the Jew is the very devil incarnal; and, in my conscience, my conscience is but a kind of hard conscience, to offer to counsel me to stay with the Jew.†
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- Certainly the Jew is the very devil incarnal; and, in my conscience, my conscience is but a kind of hard conscience, to offer to counsel me to stay with the Jew.†
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Definition:
feeling or judgment of morally right or wrong personal behavior