Quotes from the Sandbox ~ Thurs., Dec. 6, 2018

Happy Saint Nicholas Day everyone! Hope you woke up this morning and St. Nick had filled your hanging stockings with all things good.                           Jane
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New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings."                     ~Lao Tzu

"The Seven Social Sins are:
   Wealth without work,
   Pleasure without conscience,
   Knowledge without character,
   Commerce without morality,
   Science without humanity,
   Worship without sacrifice,
   Politics without principle.                                   ~Frederick Lewis Donaldson 

"There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, not
politic, nor popular;  but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right."
                                                                                      ~Martin Luther King Jr.
"A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory."
                                                                                                        ~Mark Twain

"Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it."
                                                                                                 ~Leo Tolstoy

"Betrayal is common for men with no conscience.                   ~Toba Beta

"Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves.  But deep down below the
surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is
out of tune."                                                              ~ Carl Gustav Jung

"Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking."
                                                                                                 ~H.L. Mencken

"The ultimate test of man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice
something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be
heard."                                                                                   ~Gaylord Nelson

"Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire
called conscience."                                                               ~George Washington
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