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shame

«I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.»
Author: Dick Gregory | About: Learning | Keywords: at home, school, shame
«Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?»
«Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.»
«My feelings for you shame me into silence. The truth of this and your name will never be revealed. It is you who has made me realize the failure of my life. The thought of you fills me with longing and at the same time, a burning humiliation that produces scar tissue and dead brain cells. Your existence mocks me and I am unable to confront this. You have no idea of any of this. None of this is your fault. It is completely with me. It is you who makes me see what I really am. I am weak and out of touch with myself.»
«Once in seven years I burn all my sermons; for it is a shame if I cannot write better sermons now than I did seven years ago.»
«Let us together closely lie and kiss, There is no labor, no shame in this: This hath pleased, doth please, and long will please, never, Can this decay, but is beginning ever»
Author: Petronius | Keywords: closely, decay, pleased, shame
«I used to look in the mirror and feel shame, I look in the mirror now and I absolutely love myself.»
«It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.»
«My race of glory run, and race of shame, / And I shall shortly be with them that rest.»
Author: John Milton (Historian, Poet, Scholar) | Keywords: shame, shortly
«He was not born to shame.Upon his brow shame is ashamed to sit.»

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