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Letter "S" » Shame
"Shame is an ornament of the young; a disgrace of the old."
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About: Shame
"A nightingale dies for shame if another bird sings better."
Author: Robert Burton
About: Shame
"Less shame a greater fault would palliate.
[Lat., Maggior difetto men vergogna lava.]"
Author: Dante ("Dante Alighieri")
About: Shame
"Love taught him shame; and shame, with love at strife,
Soon taught the sweet civilities of life."
Author: John Dryden
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"The only art her guilt to cover,
To hide her shame from every eye,
To give repentance to her lover,
And wring his bosom, is–to die."
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
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"If yet not lost to all the sense of shame."
Author: Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")
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"As soon as she (woman) begins to be ashamed of what she ought
not, she will not be ashamed of what she ought.
[Lat., Nae simul pudere quod non oportet coeperit; quod oportet
non pudebit.]"
Author: Titus Livy
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"The worst kind of shame is being ashamed of frugality or poverty.
[Lat., Pessimus quidem pudor vel est parsimoniae vel
frugalitatis.]"
Author: Titus Livy
About: Shame
"I am not ashamed that these reproaches can be cast upon us, and
that they can not be repelled.
[Lat., Pudet haec opprobria nobis
Et dici potuisse et non potuisse repelli.]"
Author: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
About: Shame
"Here shame dissuades him, there his fear prevails,
And each by turns his aching heart assails."
Author: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
About: Shame
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