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• When I die, I should be ashamed to leave enough to build me a monument if there were a wanting friend above ground. I would enjoy the pleasure of what I give by giving it alive and seeing another enjoy it.

  Alexander Pope

  Giving, Alive, Charity

  Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker (1871). “The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials”, p.159

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• My age is my own private business and I intend to keep it so - if I can. I am not so old that I am ashamed of my age and I am not so young that I couldn't have written my book and that is all the public needs to know about my age.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Book, Age, Needs

  Margaret Mitchell (1986). “Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the wind letters, 1936-1949”, Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers

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• There are cases in which a man would be ashamed not to have been imposed upon. There is a confidence necessary to human intercourse, and without which men are often more injured by their own suspicions than they would be by the perfidy of others.

  Edmund Burke

  Men, Knavery, Would Be

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.3673, Delphi Classics

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• I am not ashamed to admit that I belong to those who fantasize that literature is capable of bringing new horizons and new perspectives--philosophical, religious, aesthetical and even social.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Religious, Philosophical, Perspective

  Isaac Bashevis Singer's Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 8, 1978.

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• She who is more ashamed of dishonesty than of poverty will not be easily overcome.

  Samuel Richardson

  Overcoming, Poverty, Dishonesty

  Samuel Richardson (1755). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...”, p.4

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• People at my level [Unilever CEO] shouldn't be motivated by salary. If you paid me double, I'm not going to work twice as much, because I'm already probably maximizing my time available. And would it change the way I do things? Not really. So, yes, I am fortunate, and I am ashamed about the amount of money I earn.

  Paul Polman

  People, Salary, Levels

  Source: www.smh.com.au

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• The world is ashamed of being virtuous.

  Laurence Sterne

  Work, World, Virtuous

  Laurence Sterne (1853). “Works ...”, p.353

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• Reproof, especially as it relates to children, administered in all gentleness, will render the culprit not afraid, but ashamed to repeat the offence.

  Hosea Ballou

  Children, Culprit, Not Afraid

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• In the case of women, it is of the living and unpublished blood that the violent world has professed to be delicate and ashamed. See the curious history of the political rights of woman under the Revolution. On the scaffold she enjoyed an ungrudged share in the fortunes of party. Political life might be denied her, but that seems a trifle when you consider how generously she was permitted political death.

  Alice Meynell

  Party, Rights, Blood

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• I'm never ashamed to read a book twice or as many times as I want. We never expect to drink a glass of water just once in our lives. A book can be that essential, too.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Book, Reading, Glasses

  Natalie Goldberg (2011). “Thunder and Lightning: Cracking Open the Writer’s Craft”, p.122, Open Road Media

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• Don't get me wrong, I'm not ashamed of my body, I just don't see any reason to not cover it up as much as possible. ... I'm someone who considered becoming a nun, for the outfit.

  Julia Sweeney

  Body, Becoming, Reason

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• When children ask you questions about gray hairs, and wrinkles in the face, and sighs that have no words, and smiles too bright to be carved upon the radiant face by the hands of hypocrisy--when they ask you about kneeling at the altar, speaking into the vacant air, and uttering words to an unseen and in an invisible Presence--when they interrogate you about your great psalms, and hymns, and anthem-bursts of thankfulness, what is your reply to these? Do not be ashamed of the history. Keep steadily along the line of fact. Say what happened to you, and magnify God in the hearing of the inquirer.

  Joseph Parker

  Children, Hymns, Wrinkles

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• Some there are who are much more ashamed of confessing a sin than of committing it.

  Marguerite de Navarre

  Sin, Confessing, Wrongdoing

  "L'Heptaméron" by Marguerite of Navarre, Sixth Day, Novel LX (trans. W. K. Kelly), 1558.

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• I wonder why we are always sort of ashamed of our best parts and try to hide them. We don't mind ridicule of our 'sillinesses' but of our 'sobers'.

  Emily Carr

  Mind, Trying, Wonder

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.44, D & M Publishers

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• I have come to feel strongly that the greatest service I can still render to my fellow men would be that I could make the speakers and writers among them thoroughly ashamed ever again to employ the term "social justice.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Men, Justice, Would Be

  "Law, Legislation and Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Ch. 9 : 'Social' or Distributive Justice, 1973.

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• You're so ashamed of your past; drop it! You're so proud of your past; drop it!

  Anthony de Mello

  Past, Proud, Your Past

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• running is the right thing to do! I am free, healthy with a good complexion. It is that automobile addict who should be ashamed: driving in a sealed car in warmed-over carbon monoxide and smoking a seegar. I am the Goddess! He is a bug in a monkey nut!

  Brenda Ueland

  Fitness, Running, Nuts

  Brenda Ueland (1993). “Strength to Your Sword Arm: Selected Writings”, Holy Cow Press

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• No one who has not examined patiently and honestly the other religions of the world can know what Christianity really is, or can join with such truth and sincerity in the words of St. Paul, "I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ.

  Max Muller

  World, Christianity, Sincerity

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 288, 1895.

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• But there were years when, in search of what I thought was better, nobler things I denied these, my people, and my family. I forgot the songs they sung - and most of those songs are now dead; I erased their dialect from my tongue; I was ashamed of them and their ways of life. But now - yes, I love them; they are a part of my blood; they, with all their virtues and their faults, played a great part in forming my way of looking at life.

  Agnes Smedley

  Family, Song, Years

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• I am generally ashamed to walk out in new clothes. And why am I ashamed? Is it because I don't want to embarrass the others who don't have new things? Or perhaps because a new coat makes you stand out, and you seem to be clothes and nothing else.

  Shmuel Yosef Agnon

  Clothes, Coats, Want

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• Contemporary poets are skeptical and suspicious even, or perhaps especially, about themselves. They publicly confess to being poets only reluctantly, as if they were a little ashamed of it. But in our clamorous times it's much easier to acknowledge your faults, at least if they're attractively packaged, than to recognize your own merits, since these are hidden deeper and you never quite believe in them yourself.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Believe, Never Quit, Faults

  Wislawa Szymborska, Stanisław Barańczak, Clare Cavanagh (2000). “Poems, New and Collected, 1957-1997”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it, the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.

  Pericles

  Real, Needs, Poverty

  "History of the Peloponnesian War (Book 2)". Book by Thucydides, 431 BC.

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• The thought that I had been captured so soon, without having done anything for the revolution, made me feel ashamed. I thought: at least now, I must carry out my duty well under torture.

  Ashraf Dehghani

  Done, Revolution, Made

  "Torture and Resistance in Iran". Book by Ashraf Dehghani, 1971.

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• You see I am an enthusiast on the subject of the arts. But it is an enthusiasm of which I am not ashamed, as its object is to improve the taste of my countrymen, to increase their reputation, to reconcile to them the respect of the world, and procure them its praise.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Art, World, Enthusiasm

  Thomas Jefferson (1853). “The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private : published by the order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the original manuscripts, deposited in the Department of State”, p.433

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• As long as you care as much as I care, you can't be ashamed of anything.

  Kristen Stewart

  Long, Care, I Care

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