Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.
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When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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You told me, I remember, glory, built On selfish principles, is shame and guilt; The deeds that men admire as half divine, Stark naught, because corrupt in their design. Strange doctrine this! that without scruple tears The laurel that the very lightning spares; Brings down the warrior
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When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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A man who could make so vile a pun would not scruple to pick a pocket.
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Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.
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When a thing has been said, and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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