"Not to be cowardly when it comes to our own actions! Not to leave them in the lurch!--The sting of conscience is indecent."

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We over-estimate the conscience of our friend. His goodness seems better than our goodness, his nature finer, his temptations less. Everything that is his,--his name, his form, his dress, books, and instruments,--fancy enhances. Our own thought sounds new and larger from his mouth.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson