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The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
Mort de ma vie! all is confounded, all!
Reproach and everlasting shame
Sits mocking in our plumes.
Mort de ma vie! all is confounded, all!
Reproach and everlasting shame
Sits mocking in our plumes.
The only art her guilt to cover,
To hide her shame from every eye,
To give repentance read more
The only art her guilt to cover,
To hide her shame from every eye,
To give repentance to her lover,
And wring his bosom, is--to die.
Shame is an ornament of the young; a disgrace of the old.
Shame is an ornament of the young; a disgrace of the old.
O shame, where is thy blush?
O shame, where is thy blush?
A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that read more
A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday.
We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything
that is real about us; ashamed of read more
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.
