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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.
What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.
What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.
If yet not lost to all the sense of shame.
If yet not lost to all the sense of shame.
Shame is an ornament of the young; a disgrace of the old.
Shame is an ornament of the young; a disgrace of the old.
He was not born to shame.
Upon his brow shame is ashamed to sit;
For 'tis a read more
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.
Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn.
Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn.
Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.