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“Crime, folly, sickness and all phenomena must be contemplated with complete freedom from fear aversion or shame. Otherwise we shall fail to see accurately, and interpret intelligently; in which case we shall be unable to outwit and outfight them.”

Cases Failing Crime Shame Folly Sickness Aversion Complete Freedom

Book:Magick: In Theory and Practice

Source: Magick: In Theory and Practice

“The shame of fools conceals their open wounds. [Lat., Stultorum incurata malus pudor ulcera celat.]”

Fool Shame Wounds Folly Mali

Author:Horace

“Fond of those hives where folly reigns, And cards and scandal are the chains, Where the pert virgin slights a name, And scorns to redden into shame.”

Names Shame Cards Chains Folly Reign Virgins Scandal Scorn Slander Hives

Author:Jonathan Swift

“Every man's vanity ought to be his greatest shame; and every man's folly ought to be his greatest secret.”

Men Secret Ought Shame Every Man Vanity Folly

Book:Enchiridion: Containing Institutions Divine Contemplative Practical: Moral Ethical Oeconomical Political

Source: Enchiridion: Containing Institutions Divine Contemplative Practical: Moral Ethical Oeconomical Political

“Thy pride is but the prologue of thy shame; where vain-glory commands, there folly counsels; where pride rides, there shame lackeys.”

Pride Glory Shame Command Vanity Vain Folly Prologue Lackeys

Author:Francis Quarles

“I have had my dance with Folly, nor do I shirk the blame; I have sipped the so-called Wine of Life and paid the price of shame; But I know that I shall find surcease, the rest my spirit craves, Where the rainbows play in the flying spray, 'Mid the keen salt kiss of the waves.”

Knows Play Spirit Kissing Paid Shame Blame Wine Wave Flying Folly Salt Rainbow Crave Spray Shirk

Book:Poems, 1912-1944

Source: Poems, 1912-1944

“Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia, And therefore I forbid my tears: But yet It is our trick; nature her custom holds, Let shame say what it will: when these are gone, The woman will be out. — Adieu, my lord! I have a speech of fire, that fain would blaze, But that this folly drowns it.”

Water Poor Lord Gone Doubt Fire Too Much Tears Speech Shame Tricks Folly Ophelia Adieu

Author:William Shakespeare

“See! those fiendish lineaments graven on the darkness, the writhed lip of scorn, the mockery of that living eye, the pointed finger, touching the sore place in your heart! Do you remember any act of enormous folly, at which you would blush, even in the remotest cavern of the earth? Then recognize your Shame.”

Heart Eye Earth Remember Darkness Shame Fingers Lips Enormous Folly Touching Scorn Mockery Caverns

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated)

“The way to deal with superstition is not to be polite to it, but to tackle it with all arms, and so rout it, cripple it, and make it forever infamous and ridiculous. Is it, perchance, cherished by persons who should know better? Then their folly should be brought out into the light of day, and exhibited there in all its hideousness until they flee from it, hiding their heads in shame.”

Knows Way Should Persons Light Deals Forever Arms Criticism Shame Ridiculous Folly Hiding Superstitions Polite Superstitious Cripples Infamous

Author:H. L. Mencken

“Ardent, intelligent, sweet, sensitive, cultivated, erudite. These are the adjectives of praise in an androgynous world. Those who consider them epithets of shame or folly ought not to be trusted with leadership, for they will be men hot for power and revenge, certain of right and wrong.”

Men World Certain Women Leadership Sweet Ought Intelligent Praise Hot Shame Revenge Sensitive Folly Trusted Be A Man Adjectives Ardent Erudite Epithet Androgynous

Book:Toward a recognition of androgyny

Source: Toward a recognition of androgyny