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—she, hardly more than a budding woman, but yet with an active conscience and a great mental need, not to be satisfied by a girlish instruction comparable to the nibblings and judgments of a discursive mouse.†
Chpt 1

conscience = feeling or appraisal of having personally behaved in a morally right or wrong manner
She was disposed rather to accuse the intolerable narrowness and the purblind conscience of the society around her: and Celia was no longer the eternal cherub, but a thorn in her spirit, a pink-and-white nullifidian, worse than any discouraging presence in the "Pilgrim's Progress."†
Chpt 1
But there are oddities in things," continued Mr. Brooke, whose conscience was really roused to do the best he could for his niece on this occasion.†
Chpt 1
How will you like going to Sessions with everybody looking shy on you, and you with a bad conscience and an empty pocket?†
Chpt 1
His conscience was large and easy, like the rest of him: it did only what it could do without any trouble.†
Chpt 1
She did not want to deck herself with knowledge—to wear it loose from the nerves and blood that fed her action; and if she had written a book she must have done it as Saint Theresa did, under the command of an authority that constrained her conscience.†
Chpt 1
You have a conscience of your own, I suppose.†
Chpt 2
But results which depend on human conscience and intelligence work slowly, and now at the end of 1829, most medical practice was still strutting or shambling along the old paths, and there was still scientific work to be done which might have seemed to be a direct sequence of Bichat's.†
Chpt 2
Perhaps she was conscious of being tempted to steal from those who had much that she might give to those who had nothing, and carried in her conscience the guilt of that repressed desire.†
Chpt 2
"Confound their petty politics!" was one of his thoughts for three mornings in the meditative process of shaving, when he had begun to feel that he must really hold a court of conscience on this matter.†
Chpt 2
I should vote against my conscience if I voted against Mr. Tyke—I should indeed.†
Chpt 2
"Mr. Tyke's opponents have not asked any one to vote against his conscience, I believe," said Mr. Hackbutt, a rich tanner of fluent speech, whose glittering spectacles and erect hair were turned with some severity towards innocent Mr. Powderell.†
Chpt 2
To have reversed a previous arrangement and declined to go out would have been a show of persistent anger which Dorothea's conscience shrank from, seeing that she already began to feel herself guilty.†
Chpt 2
Will, however, having given that annihilating pinch, was rather ashamed, imagining from Dorothea's silence that he had offended her still more; and having also a conscience about plucking the tail-feathers from a benefactor.†
Chpt 2
The Santa Clara, which was spoken of in the second place, Naumann declared himself to be dissatisfied with—he could not, in conscience, engage to make a worthy picture of it; so about the Santa Clara the arrangement was conditional.†
Chpt 2
In fact, it is probable that but for Mary's existence and Fred's love for her, his conscience would have been much less active both in previously urging the debt on his thought and impelling him not to spare himself after his usual fashion by deferring an unpleasant task, but to act as directly and simply as he could.†
Chpt 3
My own money buys me nothing but an uneasy conscience.†
Chpt 4
Even our own persons in the glass are apt to change their aspect for us after we have heard some frank remark on their less admirable points; and on the other hand it is astonishing how pleasantly conscience takes our encroachments on those who never complain or have nobody to complain for them.†
Chpt 4
It seems to me, a loss which falls on another because we have done right is not to lie upon our conscience.†
Chpt 4
Wait for wisdom and conscience in public agents—fiddlestick!†
Chpt 5
The only conscience we can trust to is the massive sense of wrong in a class, and the best wisdom that will work is the wisdom of balancing claims.†
Chpt 5
Lydgate's ear had caught eagerly her mention of the living, and as soon as he could, he reopened the subject, seeing here a possibility of making amends for the casting-vote he had once given with an ill-satisfied conscience.†
Chpt 5
"I wonder whether he suffers in his conscience because of that habit," said Dorothea; "I wonder whether he wishes he could leave it off."†
Chpt 5
His was one of the natures in which conscience gets the more active when the yoke of life ceases to gall them.†
Chpt 5
That depends on your conscience, Fred—how far you have counted the cost, and seen what your position will require of you.†
Chpt 5
He was rising to do what Raffles suggested, when the latter said, lifting up his finger as if with a sudden recollection— "I did have another look after Sarah again, though I didn't tell you; I'd a tender conscience about that pretty young woman.†
Chpt 5
Gentlemen, if I had less of a conscience, I should not wish you to bid high for this lot—I have a longing for it myself.†
Chpt 6
But a man who believes in something else than his own greed, has necessarily a conscience or standard to which he more or less adapts himself.†
Chpt 6
Night and day, while the resurgent threatening past was making a conscience within him, he was thinking by what means he could recover peace and trust—by what sacrifice he could stay the rod.†
Chpt 6
But for the urgency of conscience and the knowledge that I am before the bar of One who seeth not as man seeth, I should be under no compulsion to make the disclosure which has been my object in asking you to come here to-night.†
Chpt 6
"That mother became my wife," said Bulstrode, and then paused a moment before he added, "you have a claim on me, Mr. Ladislaw: as I said before, not a legal claim, but one which my conscience recognizes.†
Chpt 6
His conscience was soothed by the enfolding wing of secrecy, which seemed just then like an angel sent down for his relief.†
Chpt 7
The quick vision that his life was after all a failure, that he was a dishonored man, and must quail before the glance of those towards whom he had habitually assumed the attitude of a reprover—that God had disowned him before men and left him unscreened to the triumphant scorn of those who were glad to have their hatred justified—the sense of utter futility in that equivocation with his conscience in dealing with the life of his accomplice, an equivocation which now turned venomously upon him with the full-grown fang of a discovered lie:—all this rushed through him like the agony of terror which fails to kill, and leaves the ears still open to the returning wave of execration.†
Chpt 7
I affect no niceness of conscience—I have not found any nice standards necessary yet to measure your actions by, sir.†
Chpt 7
Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.†
Chpt 8
the scientific conscience had got into the debasing company of money obligation and selfish respects.†
Chpt 8 *
The sharp little woman's conscience was somewhat troubled in the adjustment of these opposing "bests," and of her griefs and satisfactions under late events, which were likely to humble those who needed humbling, but also to fall heavily on her old friend whose faults she would have preferred seeing on a background of prosperity.†
Chpt 8

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(1) (conscience)
feeling or judgment of morally right or wrong personal behavior
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)

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