Potential Titles: Conscience

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The mighty pillars tremble when my conscience palls - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "Four Walls"

To wear the yoke of conscience - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The Park"

With the conscience of a hound - "From the Instructions of King Cormac" transl. by Kuno Meyer

Whose conscience honesty ne'er knew - John Gay "Fable LIX: The Jackall [sic], Leopard, and Beasts" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]

Who their conscience to no market bring - "The Ghost of Chatham"

For its calm bravery and ordinary good conscience - Edward Hirsch "Wild Gratitude"

Conscience from her slumber wakes - "The Life and Death of Tom Careless"

And keep the eye of conscience clear - George Martin "W.H. Magee"

Power to shrug off conscience when it stings - Harry Martinson "Aniara 43" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

And the scorpion lash of conscience - H.P. McKnight "An Initial Acrostic"

A conscience that never blinks - Mary Oliver "With the Blackest of Inks"

If my conscience seem an idle joke - Helen Rowland "The Rubáiyát of a Bachelor"

No want of conscience hold - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CLI"

Take my conscience out for waffles - Kristen Tracy "Urban Animals"


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