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“There's no shame in failing. The only shame is not giving things your best shot.”

Giving Failing Shots Shame Best Shot

Author:Robin Williams

“Give your friend cause to blush, and you will be likely to lose him.”

Giving Causes Loses Shame

Author:Publilius Syrus

“Led by long years to my last hours, too late, O world, I know your joys for what they are. You promise a peace which is not yours to give and the repose that dies before it is born. The years of fear and shame to which Heaven now set a term, renew nothing in me but the old sweet error in which, living overlong a man kills his soul with no gain to his body. I say and I know having put it to the proof, that he has the better part in Heaven whose death falls nearest his birth.”

Knows Men World Giving Years Long Soul Body Lasts Death Joy Dies Fall Heaven Term Born Hours Sweet Birth Promise Late Gains Shame Errors Proof Too Late Repose

Author:Michelangelo

“Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging.”

Ifs Men Giving Poor Shame Spares Begging Poor Man

Author:Denis Diderot

“Oh Lord, give us a sense of humor with courage to manifest it forth, so that we may laugh to shame the pomps, the vanities, the sense of self-importance of the Big Fellows that the world sometimes sends among us, and who try to take our peace away.”

World Giving Trying May Self Sometimes Humor Bigs Lord Laughing Importance Shame Fellows Vanity Sense Of Humor Manifest Sense Of Self Self-importance

Author:Sean O'Casey

“Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one.”

Giving Pain Effects Shame Punishment Humiliating Physical Pain Corporal Punishment

Book:The Century of the Child

Source: The Century of the Child