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Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity. - Horace Mann Shame sticks ever close to the ribs of honor. - Thomas Middleton Where shame is, there is also fear. - John Milton That holy shame, which ne'er forgets What clear renown it us'd to wear; Whose blush remains when virtue sets, To show her sunshine has been there. - Thomas Moore Shame is a feeling of profanation. Friendship, love and piety ought to be handled with a sort of mysterious secrecy; they ought to be spoken of only in the rare moments of perfect confidence,--to be mutually understood in silence. Many things are too delicate to be thought,--many more, to be spoken. - Novalis (pseudonym of Frederich Leopold von Hardenberg) I know not how to tell thee! Shame rises in my face, and interrupts the story of my tongue! - Thomas Otway I am not ashamed that these reproaches can be cast upon us, and that they can not be repelled. [Lat., Pudet haec opprobria nobis Et dici potuisse et non potuisse repelli.] - Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), Metamorphoses (bk. I, 758) Here shame dissuades him, there his fear prevails, And each by turns his aching heart assails. - Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), Metamorphoses (bk. III, Transformation of Actoeon, l. 73), (Addison's translation) I count him lost, who is lost to shame. [Lat., Nam ego illum periisse duco, cui quidem periit pudor.] - Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus), Bacchides (III, 3, 80) Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit. - Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) For often vice, provoked to shame, borrows the color of a virtuous deed; thus libertines are chaste, and misers good, a coward valiant, and a priest sincere. - Dr. George Sewell All is confounded, all! Reproach and everlasting shame Sits mocking in our plumes. - William Shakespeare O shame, where is thy blush? - William Shakespeare, Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at III, iv) He was not born to shame. Upon his brow shame is ashamed to sit; For 'tis a throne where honor may be crowned Sole monarch of the universal earth. - William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (Juliet at III, ii) Mort de ma vie! all is confounded, all! Reproach and everlasting shame Sits mocking in our plumes. - William Shakespeare, The Life of King Henry the Fifth (Dauphin at IV, v) We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinion, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins. - George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (act I) Shame is the dying embers of virtue. - Henry Wheeler Shaw (used pseudonyms Josh Billings and Uncle Esek) Nothing is truly infamous, but what is wicked; and therefore shame can never disturb an innocent and virtuous mind. - Thomas Sherlock In shame there is no comfort but to be beyond all bounds of shame. - Sir Philip Sidney (Sydney) The most curious offspring of shame is shyness. - Sydney Smith, Lecture on the Evil Affections In darkness one may be ashamed of what one does, without the shame of disgrace. - Sophocles Of all evils to the generous, shame is the most deadly pang. - James Thomson (1) There are two restraints which God has laid upon human nature, shame and fear; shame is the weaker, and has place only in those in whom there are some reminders of virtue. - John Tillotson Displaying page 2 of 2 for this topic: << Prev 1 [2]
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