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• Far or forgot to me is near;
  Shadow and sunlight are the same;
  The vanished gods to me appear;
  And one to me are shame and fame.They reckon ill who leave me out;
  When me they fly, I am the wings;
  I am the doubter and the doubt,
  And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Death, Wings, Hymns

  'Brahma' (1867)

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• I've borne the shame of mother while you bought her off with a present and a treat here and there. God knows how hard I tried to civilize her so as not to have to blush with shame when I take her anywhere. I dressed her in the most stylish Paris models, but Delancey Street sticks out from every inch of her. Whenever she opens her mouth, I'm done for. You fellows had your chance to rise in the world because a man is free to go up as high as he can reach up to; but I, with all my style and pep, can't get a man my equal because a girl is always judged by her mother.

  Anzia Yezierska

  Girl, Mother, Men

  Anzia Yezierska (2014). “Hungry Hearts: Stories of the Jewish-American Immigrant Experience”, p.168, Courier Corporation

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• Shameless: Punish me for my desire if you will. It burns still.

  Mason Cooley

  Desire, Stills, Ifs

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• I can bear scorpion's stings, tread fields of fire, in frozen gulfs of cold eternal lie, be tossed aloft through tracts of endless void, but cannot live in shame.

  Joanna Baillie

  Lying, Fire, Scorpions

  Joanna Baillie (1853). “The dramatic and poetical works of Joanna Baillie”, p.45

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• The mind's cross indexing puts the best librarian to shame.

  Sharon Begley

  Acceptance, Mind, Librarian

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• I was like the only diverse kid in my high school, and I'm half-Puerto Rican. But yeah, I have a huge family and tons of cousins in Puerto Rico. We actually hung out with them last summer, and it was awesome. But I wish my grandfather had taught my dad Spanish when he was younger so he could've taught me when I was younger, and sometimes he does, too. It's a shame.

  Aubrey Plaza

  Summer, Cousin, Dad

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• The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.

  Pierre Corneille

  Crime

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• And all knowledge, when separated from justice and virtue, is seen to be cunning and not wisdom; wherefore make this your first and last and constant and all-absorbing aim, to exceed, if possible, not only us but all your ancestors in virtue; and know that to excel you in virtue only brings us shame, but that to be excelled by you is a source of happiness to us.

  Plato

  Plato, Justice, Lasts

  Plato (2015). “The Complete Plato”, p.166, Booklassic

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• By virtue of depression, we recall those misdeeds we buried in the depths of our memory. Depression exhumes our shames.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Memories, Depth, Virtue

  "Anathemas and Admirations". Book by Emil Cioran, 1987.

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• When you finally embrace the gift of your sexual orientation it IS the end; the end of shame, fear and oppression. You leave the darkness of the closet and begin a life of honesty, authenticity and freedom.

  Anthony Venn-Brown

  Honesty, Gay, Darkness

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• An intuitive grasp of your character is formed by exploring scenes of profound emotional import-moments of overwhelming shame, joy, fear, pride, regret, forgiveness.

  David Corbett

  Regret, Character, Pride

  "The Art of Character: Creating Memorable Characters for Fiction, Film, and TV". Book by David Corbett, January 29, 2013.

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• This wicked man Hitler, the repository and embodiment of many forms of soul-destroying hatred. this monstrous product of former wrongs and shame.

  Winston Churchill

  Men, Hatred, Soul

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.356, Da Capo Press

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• Live in thy shame, but die not shame with thee!

  William Shakespeare

  Creativity, Creative, Thee

  William Shakespeare (1823). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed; with Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius & Writings”, p.374

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• For some reason, we are truly convinced that if we criticize ourselves, the criticism will lead to change. If we are harsh, we believe we will end up being kind. If we shame ourselves, we believe we end up loving ourselves. It has never been true, not for a moment, that shame leads to love. Only love leads to love.

  Geneen Roth

  Love, Inspirational, Change

  FaceBook post by Geneen Roth from Apr 24, 2014

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• With his continual doctrine [Bishop Hooper] adjoined due and discreet correction, not so much severe to any as to them which for abundance of riches and wealthy state thought they might do what they listed. And doubtless he spared no kind of people, but was indifferent to all men, as well rich as poor, to the great shame of no small number of men nowadays. Whereas many we see so addicted to the pleasing of great and rich men, that in the meantime they have no regard to the meaner sort of poor people, whom Christ hath bought as dearly as the other.

  John Foxe

  Men, Small Numbers, People

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• I thought of such Christian inventions as the ghetto and the Jewish badge of shame. The Nazis didn't have to go very far to pick up their know-how.

  Lionel Blue

  Christian, Ghetto, Nazi

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• If we had the courage to confront the doubts we timidly conceive about ourselves, none of us would utter an 'I' without shame.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Doubt, Ifs

  Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

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• Every woman while she would be ready to die of shame if surprised in the act of generation, nonetheless carries her pregnancy without a trace of shame and indeed with a kind of pride. The reason is that pregnancy is in a certain sense a cancellation of the guilt incurred by coitus; thus coitus bears all the shame and disgrace of the affair, while pregnancy, which is so intimately associated with it, stays pure and innocent and is indeed to some extent sacred.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Pregnancy, Pride, Guilt

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• As a people, we value family, education and success. Hunger is an enemy to all three. Scientific studies have demonstrated that even brief periods of hunger can permanently inhibit a child's mental, emotional and physical growth. Kids who are hungry do poorly in school and are unlikely to grow into productive adults. For families, experiencing hunger means living in a world of isolation and shame. Caring citizens must put an end to this disgrace.

  Ted Danson

  Children, School, Mean

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• The history of medicine proves that in so far as man seeks to know himself and face his whole nature, he has become free from bewildered fear, despondent shame, or arrant hypocrisy. As long as sex is dealt with in the current confusion of ignorance and sophistication, denial and indulgence, suppression and stimulation, punishment and exploitation, secrecy and display, it will be associated with a duplicity and indecency that lead neither to intellectual honesty nor human dignity.

  Alfred Kinsey

  Sex, Honesty, Ignorance

  "Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male". Book by Alfred Kinsey, 1948.

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• Within each of us there is the heart of a lion, the courage to simply be who & what we are regardless of others opinions or our own fears. Sometimes this courage has been buried beneath years of shaming that may have been so implicit or insidious that we breathed it in, unaware of how it separated us from knowing our own beauty of being. May we each know our own beauty & right to be today. May we drop down into the heart of the lion within & say to shame, when it rears it's head, "Not today!"

  Oriah Dreamer

  Inspirational, Heart, Others Opinions

  FaceBook post by Oriah Mountain Dreamer from May 07, 2013

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• And what shall he suffer who slays him who of all men, as they say, is his own best friend? I mean the suicide, who deprives himself by violence of his appointed share of life. Not because the law of the state requires him. Nor yet under the compulsion of some painful and inevitable misfortune which has come upon him. Nor because he has had to suffer from irremediable and intolerable shame, but who from sloth or want of manliness imposes upon himself an unjust penalty.

  Plato

  Suicide, Suicidal, Mean

  Plato (2015). “The Complete Plato”, p.1764, Booklassic

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• Mindful grief means mourning and letting go of the past without expectation, fear, censure, blame, shame, control and so forth. Without such mindful grief, neither past nor person can be laid to rest.

  David Richo

  Letting Go, Grief, Mean

  David Richo (2002). “How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving”, p.246, Shambhala Publications

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• In darkness one may be ashamed of what one does, without the shame of disgrace.

  Sophocles

  Darkness, Guilt, Doe

  David Grene, Sophocles (1959). “Sophocles”, [Chicago] : University of Chicago Press

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• When one feels no shame in telling a deliberate lie, there is no evil, I tell you, he will not do.

  Gautama Buddha

  Lying, Evil, Feels

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