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It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
Horace
Moving On
Try
Fools
Wounds
Shame
Conceal
Healed
False
I think it's a shame that the day somebody hears about a shooting, the first thing they think about is, 'How can I go promote my gun control agenda?' as opposed to saying, 'How do I go pray and help the families that are suffering?'
Steve Scalise
Saying
Day
Suffering
Gun
Gun Control
Somebody
First
Control
Think
Promote
About
Shame
First Thing
How
Opposed
Go
Pray
Hears
Families
Shooting
The First Thing
Agenda
Help
Thing
Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
Tertullian
Nature
Fear
Evil
Every
Shame
Either
Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
Benjamin Franklin
Having
Shame
Been
Being
Ashamed
Poor
Ironically, parenting is a shame and judgment minefield precisely because most of us are wading through uncertainty and self-doubt when it comes to raising our children.
Brene Brown
Parenting
Judgment
Our
Uncertainty
Shame
Through
Most
Self-Doubt
Because
Ironically
Precisely
Children
Us
Raising
God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
God
Dreams
Best
Man
Gifts
Shame
Put
What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.
Friedrich Nietzsche
You
Humane
Someone
Shame
Most
Regard
Spare
Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
John Dryden
Down
Spirit
Shame
Breaking
While
Body
We regard wealth as something to be properly used, rather than as something to boast about. 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
Wealth
Poverty
Admit
About
Something
Properly
Rather
Shame
No-One
Taking
Practical
Real
Escape
Than
Regard
Ashamed
Boast
Used
Measures
Need
There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wings immortal scandals fly, while virtuous actions are born and die.
William Harvey
Man
Fly
Lust
Virtuous
Neighbor
Scandals
Immortal
Born
Charm
Wings
Shame
Tame
His
Loudly
Die
While
Actions
Publishing
Eagles
Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.
Alexander Pope
Honor
Lies
Rise
Shame
Part
Well
Condition
Act
Your
Blacks in America want to forget about slavery - the stigma, the shame. If you can't be who you are, who can you be? How can you know what to do? We have our history. We have our book, and that is the blues.
August Wilson
History
You
Book
Our
About
Blacks
Shame
Know
How
Stigma
America
Forget
Blues
Want
Who
Slavery
You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.
Brene Brown
You
People
Paralyzed
About
Shame
Talk
Talking
Without
Privilege
Get
Cannot
Race
Start
Trump has no sense of shame.
Colin Powell
Sense
Shame
No Sense
Trump
One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.
Marquis de Sade
Dangerous
Old
Too
Shame
Never
Than
Blush
Grown
People will constantly bring up my past and throw it in my face, but the Creator of the Universe doesn't. If you ask forgiveness from Him, then it's gone forever. The past is never brought up to shame you or degrade you.
Shawn Michaels
Forgiveness
You
People
Will
Face
Past
Gone
Universe
Degrade
Constantly
Brought
Shame
Throw
Never
Him
Up
Forever
Ask
Then
Creator
Bring
We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at our brother's shame; however you take it we men are a little breed.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
You
Be Kind
Men
Other
Our
Chuckle
We Cannot
Kind
Brother
Shame
Take
Hour
Hint
However
Cannot
Little
Grin
Whisper
Breed
Even
Each
Here
Those who cultivate moral confusion for profit should understand this: we will name their names and shame them as they deserve to be shamed.
Bob Dole
Confusion
Will
Profit
Those
Moral
Shame
Shamed
Name
Names
Understand
Cultivate
Them
Should
Who
Deserve
The bold defiance of a woman is the certain sign of her shame, - when she has once ceased to blush, it is because she has too much to blush for.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Woman
Too Much
Defiance
Too
Once
Sign
Shame
She
Because
Blush
Much
Certain
Bold
Her
In the cellars of the night, when the mind starts moving around old trunks of bad times, the pain of this and the shame of that, the memory of a small boldness is a hand to hold.
John Leonard
Memory
Old
Mind
Pain
Starts
Bad
Small
Shame
Bad Times
Around
Hand
Times
Hold
Moving
Boldness
Night
No one can doubt that the sufferings of the sober, virtuous woman, in legal subjection to the mastership of a drunken, immoral husband and father over herself and children, not only from physical abuse, but from spiritual shame and humiliation, must be such as the man himself can not possibly comprehend.
Susan B. Anthony
Spiritual
Man
Woman
Legal
Father
Humiliation
Husband
Doubt
Herself
Virtuous
Possibly
Must
Immoral
Physical
Comprehend
Only
Shame
No-One
Over
Abuse
Drunken
Himself
Subjection
Children
Sober
Sufferings
Own your choices. Don't feel ashamed about what you're doing, trust yourself that you're a good parent, don't let anybody else shame you, and, certainly, don't shame yourself.
Valerie Jarrett
Good
You
Trust
Yourself
Own
Else
Good Parent
About
Parent
Shame
Feel
Doing
Anybody
Anybody Else
Ashamed
Choices
Your
Certainly
In the face of patriarchy, it is a brave act indeed for both men and women to embrace, rather than shame or attempt to eradicate, the feminine.
Alanis Morissette
Women
Men
Face
Men And Women
Indeed
Embrace
Rather
Both
Both Men And Women
Shame
Attempt
Feminine
Eradicate
Than
Brave
Patriarchy
Act
There's no great shame in having your nose fixed.
Alexa Ray Joel
Great
Having
Shame
Fixed
Nose
Your
Patriotism demands the ability to feel shame as much as to feel pride.
Anne-Marie Slaughter
Patriotism
Pride
Ability
Shame
Feel
Demands
Much
At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame.
Barbara Ehrenreich
Love
Best
Family
Hate
Rage
Too
Finest
Shame
Generosity
Like
Also
Learn
Another
Nasty
Often
Human
Where
Human Beings
Teaches
Beings
Things
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