“Alas! alas! too often conscience sleeps,
When pleasure's syren numbers lull its rest.”
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
Canto II, VIII
The Fate of Adelaide (1821)
“…; but conscience, like a child, is soon lulled to sleep; and habit is our idea of eternity.”
Heath's book of Beauty, 1833 (1832)
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Citizens! efface from the tomb that motto, graven by sacrilegious hands, which spreads over all nature a funereal crape, takes from oppressed innocence its support, and affronts the beneficent dispensation of death! Inscribe rather thereon these words: "Death is the commencement of immortality!" <br class="br">Source: Last speech to the National Convention http://www.bartleby.com/268/7/24.html (26 July 1794)
