Wind puffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools.

- Socrates -

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The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions.

-Anon -

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I own the soft impeachment.

- Sheridon, Rivais -

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There are some things which men confess with ease, but others with difficulty.

- Epicuras, Discourse -

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To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it.

- Syrus -

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Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.

- George Herbert, Jacula Prunentum -

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Trust not him that hath once broken faith.

- Shakespeare -

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They conquer who believe they can.

- Dryden -

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By mutual confidence and great discoveries made.

-Homer, Illiad -

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Self trust is the essence of heroism.

- Emerson -

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I came, I saw, conquered

- Julius Caesar, Letter to Amaritus, 47 BC -

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Conscience is God's presence in man.

- Swedenborg, Arcana Coelesta -

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Conscience is a sacred santuary where God alone may enter as a judge.

- Lamennais -

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Love is too young to know what conscience is;Yet who knows not conscience is shorn of love.

- Shakespeare -

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A little while she strove, and much repented,And whispering 'Iwill ne'er consent, consented'.

- Byron, Don Juan -

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A conservative is a man who is too cowerdly to fight and too fat to run.

- Elbert Hubbadr, Epigrams -

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Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength may be given to every upbringing plant of duty.

- Emerson -

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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

-Emerson, Essays:self-Relieance -

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There is no consolation in truth alone.

- Pascal, On Death -

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Over the bridge of sights we pass to the place of peace.

- C.H.Spurgeon, 'Salt Cellar' -

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