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“Encourage virtue in whatever heart it may have been driven into secrecy and sorrow by the shame and terror of the world.”

World Heart May Has Beens Virtue Sorrow Shame Terror Driven Secrecy

Book:The Time of Your Life

Source: The Time of Your Life

“Many [hooligans] discover to their shame that they have scruples; they have roots and, greatest disadvantage of all, they have hope. The fathers superior of the order do not try to influence their children in Satan; they merely shake their heads in sorrow. They know that the apostate must work out his own damnation.”

Knows Trying Children Order Father Influence Sorrow Roots Shame Work Out Superiors Satan Shakes Disadvantages Having Hope Damnation Scruples

Author:Quentin Crisp

“Prostrate on earth the bleeding warrior lies, And Isr'el's beauty on the mountains dies. How are the mighty fallen! Hush'd be my sorrow, gently fall my tears, Lest my sad tale should reach the alien's ears: Bid Fame be dumb, and tremble to proclaim In heathen Gath, or Ascalon, our shame Lest proud Philistia, lest our haughty foe, With impious scorn insult our solemn woe.”

Should Earth Lying Dies Fall Tears Proud Sorrow Fame Mountain Ears Shame Tales Warrior Aliens Dumb Fallen Insult Woe Foe Scorn Solemn Bleeding Hush Heathen Haughty

Author:William Somervile

“Shame on those breasts of stone that cannot melt in soft adoption of another's sorrow.”

Tears Sorrow Stones Shame Breasts Adoption

Book:Tragedy of Alzira with the Life of the Author and a Critique by Richard Cumberland

Source: Tragedy of Alzira with the Life of the Author and a Critique by Richard Cumberland

“Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding-place and let it be free and unashamed. Place in matter and in flesh the least of the values, for these are things that hold death and must pass away. Discover in all things that which shines and is beyond corruption. Encourage virtue in whatever heart it may have been driven into secrecy and sorrow by the shame and terror of the world.”

Source: Famous American plays of the 1920s and the 1930s

“The sin and the shame and the sorrow, The crime and the want and the woe That are born there in your workshop, No hand can paint, you know.”

Knows Want Hands Born Sin Crime Sorrow Anger Shame Paint Woe Workshops

Book:Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)

Source: Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)

“In heaven we will sing free of all the shame, sickness and sorrow that we encounter in the here and now.”

Heaven Sorrow Shame Encounters Sickness Here And Now

Author:Matt Redman

“In his deepest heart there surge tremendous shame and madness mixed with sorrow and love whipped on by frenzy and a courage aware of its own worth.”

Heart Literature Sorrow And Love Madness Shame Frenzy

Author:Virgil

“We need never be ashamed of our tears.”

Source: Great Expectations

“There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction.”

Needs Real Enough Suffering Fiction Sorrow Shame Meetings Real Life Baseness

Book:Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children

Source: Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children

“Her affection for him was now the breath and life of Tess's being; it enveloped her as a photosphere, irradiated her into forgetfulness of her past sorrows, keeping back the gloomy spectres that would persist in their attempts to touch her—doubt, fear, moodiness, care, shame. She knew that they were waiting like wolves just outside the circumscribing light, but she had long spells of power to keep them in hungry subjection there.”

Long Light Care Past Waiting Doubt Sorrow Breaths Shame Affection Hungry Spells Persist Forgetfulness Gloomy Subjection Tess Spectre Moodiness

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)

“There are no words and there is no singing, but the music has a voice. It is an old voice and a deep voice, like the stump of a sweet cigar or a shoe with a hole. It is a voice that has lived and lives, with sorrow and shame, ecstasy and bliss, joy and pain, redemption and damnation. It is a voice with love and without love. I like the voice, and though I can't talk to it, I like the way it talks to me. It says it is all the same, Young Man. Take it and let it be.”

Men Way I Can Pain Young Joy Voice Sweet Sorrow Singing Shame Shoes Holes Redemption Bliss Young Man Ecstasy Without Love Talk To Me Cigar Damnation Stumps Joy And Pain

Book:A Million Little Pieces

Source: A Million Little Pieces

“If I dropped a tear upon your hand, may it wither it up! If I spoke a gentle word in your hearing, may it deafen you! If I touched you with my lips, may the touch be poison to you! A curse upon this roof that gave me shelter! Sorrow and shame upon your head! Ruin upon all belonging to you!”

Ifs May Hands Tears Sorrow Shame Lips Hearing Ruins Gentle Curse Poison Touched Spokes Belonging Shelter Roof

Book:Dombey and Son

Source: Dombey and Son

“Blood in the water I sing, and one who shed it: deadliest hunger I sing, and one who fed it- weaving the ancient-most tale of the Sea's sending: singing the tragedy, singing the joy unending This is our shame- this is the whole Ocean's glory: this is the Song of the Twelve. Hark to the story! Hearken, and bring it to pass: swift lest the sorrow long ago laid to it's rest devour us tomarrow!”

Long Whole Stories Joy Song Water Blood Sea Sorrow Ocean Singing Glory Tragedy Shame Ancient Hunger Tales Feds Twelve Shed Long Ago Unending Weaving

Book:Deep Wizardry

Source: Deep Wizardry

“I can still see her face -- The sorrow in her eyes, her voice, as she condemns me. I didn't know it was possible to feel such shame. To feel so sick at heart. I'm lost inside, my soul -- all that I thought I was, and am, and ever will be -- shattered, cast to the winds. Compared to this, death is a mercy.”

Knows Feels Heart Stills I Can Soul Eye Faces Lost Voice Wind Sorrow Mercy Sick Shame Casts My Soul Her Eyes Shattered So Sick

Author:Chris Claremont

“I do not view suicide as wicked, just terribly sad. There is only one death, but it is like a stone cast into a pond - the ripples stretch far. Such an act must leave a burden of sorrow, guilt, shame and confusion on an entire family. A natural death, such as my father suffered, is hard enough to deal with. A decision to end one's life must be still more devastating for those left behind. I cannot imagine the degree of hopelessness someone must feel to contemplate such an act.”

“A drunkard is the annoyance of modesty, the trouble of civility, the spoil of wealth, the distraction of reason. He is the brewer's agent, the tavern and alehouse benefactor, the beggar's companion, the constable's trouble, his wife's woe, his children's sorrow, his neighbours scoff, his own shame.”

Children Reason Wealth Wife Trouble Sorrow Shame Agents Companion Distraction Modesty Woe Spoil Neighbour Civility Beggar Drunkenness Drunkards Annoyance Benefactors Taverns Brewers

Author:Thomas Adams

“There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own progress in existence, by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow.”

Looks Able Memories Existence Greater Progress Sorrow Shame Employed Recollection Tokens

Book:The beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: consisting of maxims and observations, moral, critical, and miscellaneous: to which are now added biographical anecdotes of the doctor, selected from the works of Mrs. Piozzi;--his Life, recently published by Mr. Boswell, and other authentic testimonies; also his will, and the sermon he wrote for the late Doctor Dodd

Source: The beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: consisting of maxims and observations, moral, critical, and miscellaneous: to which are now added biographical anecdotes of the doctor, selected from the works of Mrs. Piozzi;--his Life, recently published by Mr. Boswell, and other authentic testimonies; also his will, and the sermon he wrote for the late Doctor Dodd

“My charity is outrage, life my shame; And in that shame still live my sorrow's rage!”

Stills Sorrow Shame Charity Rage Outrage

Book:William Shakespeare: The Complete Works

Source: William Shakespeare: The Complete Works

“A tranquil conscience invites freedom from anguish, sorrow, guilt, shame, and self-condemnation. It provides a foundation for happiness. It is a condition of immense worth.”

Self Conditions Honesty Sorrow Conscience Shame Foundation Guilt Invites Immense Anguish Condemnation Tranquil

Author:Richard G. Scott

“Goods and possessions are no gain in his eyes. He stays far from wealth and honor. Long life is no ground for joy, nor early death for sorrow. Success is not for him to be pround of, failure is no shame. Had he all the world's power he would not hold it as his own. If he conquered everything he would not take it to himself. His glory is in knowing that all things come together in One and life and death are equal.”

Ifs World Life Long Eye Together Life Is Joy Wealth Knowing Failure Honor Sorrow Equal Glory Gains All Things Shame Possession His Eyes Life And Death Goods Long Life Early Death

Author:Zhuangzi

“Alone thou goest forth, O Lord, in sacrifice to die; is this thy sorrow naught to us who pass unheeding by? Our sins, not thine, thou bearest, Lord; make us thy sorrow feel, till through our pity and our shame love answers love's appeal. This is earth's darkest hour, but thou dost light and life restore; then let all praise be given thee who livest evermore. Grant us with thee to suffer pain that, as we share this hour, thy cross may bring us to thy joy and resurrection power.”