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“But truths on which depends our main concern, That 'tis our shame and misery not to learn, Shine by the side of every path we tread With such a lustre he that runs may read.”

May Running Reading Sides Path Depends Concern Shame Shining Misery

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“Wickedness is a wonderfully diligent architect of misery, of shame, accompanied with terror, and commotion, and remorse, and endless perturbation.”

Shame Misery Terror Endless Architect Wickedness Remorse Diligent

Author:Plutarch

“The offence is what is improperly called the death of an infant, who has ceased to be, before knowing what existence is, a result of a nature not to give the slightest inquietude to the most timid imagination; and which can cause no regrets but to the very person who, through a sentiment of shame and pity, has refused to prolong a life begun under the auspices of misery.”

Giving Persons Causes Imagination Results Existence Knowing Regret Shame Misery Pity Sentiments Infant No Regrets Offence

Book:Theory of Legislation

Source: Theory of Legislation

“If we would induce others to act virtuously, it will prove more effectual to show them their capacities than to expose their weakness--to attract them by a fairer ideal than to terrify them by pictures of misery and shame.”

Ifs Shows Prove Weakness Capacity Ideals Shame Misery

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“Goose pimples rose all over me, my hair stood on end, my eyes filled with tears of love and gratitude for this greatest of all conquerors of human misery and shame, and my breath came in little gasps. If I had not known that the Leader would have scorned such adulation, I might have fallen to my knees in unashamed worship, but instead I drew myself to attention, raised my arm in the eternal salute of the ancient Roman Legions and repeated the holy words, "Heil Hitler!"”

“To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades. It is to feel, when setting one's stone, that one is contributing to the building of the world.”

Men World Feels Seems Responsibility Building Pride Victory Stones Sight Responsible Shame Misery Setting Settings Be A Man Being Responsible Contributing Comrade

Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“To-morrow would bring its own trial with it; so would the next day, and so would the next; each its own trial, and yet the very same that was now so unutterably grievous to be borne. The days of the far-off future would toil onward, still with the same burden for her to take up, and bear along with her, but never to fling down; for the accumulating days, and added years, would pile up their misery upon the heap of shame.”

Years Stills Next Bears Shame Misery Burden Trials Next Day Toil Morrow Fling

Book:The Scarlet Letter (Sparklesoup Classics)

Source: The Scarlet Letter (Sparklesoup Classics)

“Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the morning and Shame sits with us at night.”

Eye Faces Night Sin Behinds Poverty Morning Despair Shame Misery Hungry Creeps Lanes Hungry Eyes

Book:The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays

Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays

“To live without experiencing some shame and blushes of admiration would surely be a wretched life.”

Sadness Shame Misery Admiration Wretched

Author:Gregor Mendel

“It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casual affairs; not old enough to do without women, but not young enough to be able to go and look for one without shame!”

Knows Men Looks Enough Able Young Women He Man Shame Misery Affair Casual Unspeakable

Book:Six Characters in Search of an Author

Source: Six Characters in Search of an Author

“When we speak to drunkards, worldlings, or any ignorant, unconverted men, we disgrace them as in that condition to the utmost, and lay it on as plainly as we can speak, and tell them of their sin, and shame, and misery: and we expect, not only that they should bear all patiently, but take all thankfully, and we have good reasons for all this; and most that I deal with do take it patiently... But if we speak to a godly minister against his errors or any sin... if it be not more an applause than a reprehension, they take it as an injury almost insufferable.”

Ifs Men Should Reason Speak Sin Deals Conditions Bears Shame Lays Misery Errors Ignorant Ministers Injury Godly Disgrace Applause Drunkards Insufferable

Author:Richard Baxter

“Misery and shame are nearly allied.”

Book:The Rambler

Source: The Rambler