quote · Words worth keeping
He that loses his conscience has nothing left that is worth keeping. Therefore be sure you look to that, and in the next place look to your health; and if you have it praise God and value it next to a good conscience.
He that loses his conscience has nothing left that is worth keeping. Therefore be sure you look to that, and in the next place look to your health; and if you have it praise God and value it next to a good conscience.
Approximate author period: c. 1638 AD · renaissance
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- Izaak Walton
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- Approximate author period: c. 1638 AD · renaissance
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- Many Thoughts of Many Minds (1896) (1896 AD)
Conscience · anthology attribution: Izaak Walton
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