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“We can more easily endure that which shames than that which vexes us.”

Shame Endure Vex

Author:Plautus

“Shame is very painful to endure. For me it makes perfect sense that the character would kill herself.”

Character Perfect Shame Endure Painful

Author:Claude Lelouch

“Judaism will be enmeshed in pride and shame for as long as it endures. But to endure as a country, Israel must shun both these tendencies.”

Long Country Pride Shame Endure Israel Tendencies Judaism

Author:Elizabeth Wurtzel

“I was usually filled with a sense of something like shame until I'd remember that wonderful line of Blake's- that we are here to learn to endure the beams of love- and I would take a long deep breath and force these words out of my strangulated throat: "Thank you.”

Long Remember Force Lines Wonderful Breaths Shame Filled Endure Throat Beam Deep Breath Blake Long Deep

Book:Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

“In working well, if travail you sustain, Into the wind shall lightly pass the pain; But of the deed the glory shall remain, And cause your name with worthy wights to reign. In working wrong, if pleasure you attain, The pleasure soon shall fade, and void as vain; But of the deed throughout the life the shame Endures, defacing you with foul defame.”

Ifs Life Wells Pain Names Causes Pleasure Wind Glory Shame Endure Deeds Worthy Vain Void Fades Reign Foul

Book:Poetical Works of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey: Minor Contemporaneous Poets, and Thomas Sackville, Lord Buckhurst

Source: Poetical Works of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey: Minor Contemporaneous Poets, and Thomas Sackville, Lord Buckhurst

“God cannot endure that unfestive, mirthless attitude of ours in which we eat our bread in sorrow, with pretentious, busy haste, or even with shame. Through our daily meals He is calling us to rejoice, to keep holiday in the midst of our working day.”

God Attitude Sorrow Calling Shame Endure Busy Bread Meals Holiday Midst Rejoice Haste Pretentious

Book:Life Togehter

Source: Life Togehter