Date: 1667
"Good Conscience will speak within, when all breath, / The doors are shut to ev'ry vocal call."
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Date: 1667
"But he that shipwracks a good Conscience shall / Let in great riches, but the Devil withal"
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Date: 1667
"Good Conscience, as Davids Instrument, / Drives away th'evil Spirit of discontent."
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Date: 1667
"It's to the Castle of the Heart a Wall / Of Brass: it is a Christians coat of Mail, / How many do for want of it miscarry!"
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Date: 1667
Conscience "is a cordial Electuary: / And very many good ingredients go / Therein, Meat, Drink, Sleep, Ease, Refreshment too.
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Date: 1667
"Good Conscience on God it self can roul; / 'Tis Aquavitæ to the swouning soul."
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Date: 1667
"As a good Conscience; this is they say / A constant Feast; who hath a Conscience good, / Fares well although he have no other Food."
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Date: 1667
"The heart is Gods peculiar Cabinet, / And Satan knows not what is in it set"
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Date: 1667; 2nd ed. in 1674
"The mind is its own place, and in itself / Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven."
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Date: 1667; 2nd ed. in 1674
"So much the rather thou, celestial Light, / Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers / Irradiate; there plant eyes, all mist from thence / Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell / Of things invisible to mortal sight."
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