Shame Quotes
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When, however, you have an enemy, then do not requite him good for evil: for that would shame him. Instead, prove that he did some good for you. And rather be angry than put to shame! And when you are cursed, I do not like it that you want to bless. Rather curse a little also! And if you are done a great injustice, then quickly add five small ones. Hideous to behold is he who is obsessed with an injustice.
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Shame occurs when you haven't been able to get away with the 'who' you want people to think you are.
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I have a word for you. I know your whole life story. I know every skeleton in your closet. I know every moment of sin, shame, dishonesty and degraded love that has darkened your past. Right now I know your shallow faith, your feeble prayer life, your inconsistent discipleship. And my word is this: I dare you to trust that I love you just as you are, and not as you should be. Because you’re never going to be as you should be.
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Be not thy tongue thy own shame's orator.
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I wish to remain nameless And live without shame 'Cause what's in a name, Oh I still remain the same
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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.
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It's a damn shame when people can't take you seriously because girls like you.
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Shame brings no advantage in misfortunes, for silence (of the accused) is the ally of the speaker.
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If you have not the experience, ask. There is no shame in asking, but do not pretend you know when you don't.
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Wrap thyself in the decent veil that the arts or the graces weave for thee, O human nature! It is only the statue of marble whose nakedness the eye can behold without shame and offence!
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The enormous expectation having to do with sexual love and the shame involved in this expectation degrades all a woman's perspectives from the start.
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Shame, it comes in every size, touches many lives, knocks on many doors.
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Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society, and vital for the development of some of the most refined and elegant qualities of human potential.
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Whom do you call bad?--Those who always want to induce shame.
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Shame on you for staying the same.
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I think that it is a good time for those who voted for the ban against gay marriage to sit and reflect and anticipate their great shame and the shame in their grandchildren's eyes if they continue that way of support. We've got to have equal rights for everyone.
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Unless Christianity is wholly false, the perception of ourselves which we have in moments of shame must be the only true one.
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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.
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Lovely place, shame about the people!
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God is ready to give more quickly, and to give more than you ask; yea, he offers his treasures if we only take them. It is truly a great shame and a severe chastisement for us Christians that God should still upbraid us for our slothfulness in prayer, and that we fail to let such a rich and excellent promise incite us to pray.
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I've got the Jewish guilt and the Irish shame and it's a hell of a job distinguishing which is which.
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You will not achieve happiness if you don't work hard; and it's a shame not to want to work hard.
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To ask may be but a moment's shame, not to ask and remain ignorant is a lifelong shame.
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And what shall he suffer who slays him who of all men, as they say, is his own best friend? I mean the suicide, who deprives himself by violence of his appointed share of life. Not because the law of the state requires him. Nor yet under the compulsion of some painful and inevitable misfortune which has come upon him. Nor because he has had to suffer from irremediable and intolerable shame, but who from sloth or want of manliness imposes upon himself an unjust penalty.
