Reproach Quotes
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They who have put out the people's eyes reproach them of their blindness.
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There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
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The only form of lying that is absolutely beyond reproach is lying for its own sake.
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Praise is more obtrusive than a reproach.
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Does a man reproach thee for being proud or ill-natured, envious or conceited, ignorant or detracting? Consider with thyself whether his reproaches are true. If they are not, consider that thou art not the person whom he reproaches, but that he reviles an imaginary being, and perhaps loves what thou really art, though he hates what thou appearest to be.
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Listen to the fool's reproach! It is a kingly title!
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How quickly a person in pain whom you can't help becomes a reproach. And then, no doubt, a thorn.
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With throbbing veins and burning skin, eyes wild and heavy, thoughts hurried and disordered, he felt as though the light were a reproach, and shrunk involuntarily from the day as if he were some foul and hideous thing.
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He was touched in the cavity where his heart should have been, in that nest of addled eggs, where the birds of heaven would have lived if they had not been whistled away, by the fervour of this reproach.
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After upwards of two thousand years Epicurus has been exonerated from the reproach that the doctrines of his philosophy recommended the pleasures of sensuality and voluptuousness as the chief good. Calumny may rest on genius a considerable part of a world's duration; what then is the value of fame?
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If you do not leave this pasturage, Saladin will come and attack you here. And if you retreat from this attack the shame and reproach will be very great.
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The reproach of a friend should be strictly just, but not too frequent.
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One's conscience reproaches one much more stingingly for one's follies than one's crimes.
