John Dryden Quotes About Conscience

Quotes about: Conscience

• A good conscience is a port which is landlocked on every side, where no winds can possibly invade. There a man may not only see his own image, but that of his Maker, clearly reflected from the undisturbed waters.

  John Dryden

  Men, Wind, Water

• The conscience of a people is their power.

  John Dryden

  People, Conscience

  John Dryden (1993). “The Works of John Dryden, Volume XIV: Plays; The Kind Keeper, The Spanish Fryar, The Duke of Guise, and The Vindication”, p.218, Univ of California Press

• God has endowed man with inalienable rights, among which are self-government, reason, and conscience. Man is properly self-governed only when he is guided rightly and governed by his Maker, divine Truth and Love.

  John Dryden

  Men, Rights, Self

• That, if the Gentiles, (whom no Law inspir'd,)
  By Nature did what was by Law requir'd;
  They, who the written Rule and never known,
  Were to themselves both Rule and Law alone:
  To Natures plain Indictment they shall plead;
  And, by their Conscience, be condemn'd or freed.

  John Dryden

  Law, Indictment, Gentiles

  John Dryden (1972). “The Works of John Dryden, Volume II: Poems, 1681-1684”, p.115, Univ of California Press

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