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Tag Name "Shame" (1023)

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Yet, whether to the glory or to the shame of human nature, in what we call pleasure (with an excess of scorn, perhaps) there are abysses as deep as those of love.
Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly
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A righteous man hates lying, But a wicked man is loathsome and comes to shame.
Solomon
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Corporate bodies are more corrupt and profligate than individuals, because they have more power to do mischief, and are less amenable to disgrace or punishment. They feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill.
William Hazlitt
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It's a shame you know, he called over his shoulder. What's a shame? Duncan asked. That I didn't capture her first. Duncan smiled. Nay, Edmond, it was a blessing. God's truth, I would have taken her from you.
Julie Garwood
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Mass illiteracy is India's sin and shame and must be liquidated.
Mahatma Gandhi
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My struggle has allowed me to transcend that sense of shame and stigma identified with my being a Black gay man. Having come through the fire, they can't touch me.
Marlon Riggs
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But I don't think there has ever been anything written on the nature of violent man as deep and as thorough as Shakespeare's Titus. I think it puts all modern movies and modern exploitations of violence to shame.
Julie Taymor
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He walks abreast with his days and feels no shame in not 'studying a profession', for he does not postpone his life, but lives already. He has not one chance, but a hundred chances.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty, hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to talk French.
P. G. Wodehouse
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Culture now spreads at central nervous system speed. It’s a shame that compassion doesn’t.
Dean Cavanagh
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Never feel shame for trying and failing, for he who never failed is he who never tried.
Og Mandino
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To me, the biggest lesson I`ve learned up till now with two weeks to go before the election, and the thing I have to keep, sort of, taking myself back to kind of parse, is just how powerful a personality can be when it is as not worried about norms or shame as a normal person.
Chris Hayes
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
Anais Nin
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Avoid shame, but do not seek glory nothing so expensive as glory.
Sydney Smith
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Is it a shame that I can’t accept love? Am I too burned out to move towards what will keep me alive or too smart to get pulled into someone else’s world?
Henry Rollins
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When guilt is in its blush of infancy, it trembles in a tenderness of shame and the first eye that pierces through the veil that hides the secret brings it to the face
Thomas Southerne
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When a nation has allowed itself to fall under a tyrannical regime, it cannot be absolved from the faults due to the guilt of that regime.
Winston Churchill
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I don't think closeted homosexual morticians have the market cornered on self-loathing or sense of shame.
Michael C. Hall
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Conquer evil people by gentle kindness, and make zealous people wonder at your goodness. Put the lover of legality to shame by your compassion.
Isaac of Nineveh
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I don't read music, which is a shame, actually, and I shouldn't even speak of it because it's embarrassing, but it's true.
Susanna Hoffs
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Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.
Edmund Burke
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Shame tells you when you've gone too far. Then you try if it's okay to go too far. And it might be so that shame was right. You can never, never know that.
Karl Ove Knausgard
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Your only shame is to have shame.
Amy Tan
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Self-compassion is key because when we're able to be gentle with ourselves in the midst of shame, we're more likely to reach out, connect, and experience empathy.
Brené Brown
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