#shame

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#tears #rain

[A]s though mindful of the wife of Lot, who looked back from behind him, thou deliveredst me first to the sacred garments and monastic profession before thou gavest thyself to God. And for that in this one thing thou shouldst have had little trust in me I vehemently grieved and was ashamed. For I (God [knows]) would without hesitation precede or follow thee to the Vulcanian fires according to thy word. For not with me was my heart, but with thee. But now, more than ever, if it be not with thee, it is nowhere. For without thee it cannot anywhere exist. ↗

— Héloïse d'Argenteuil

#celibacy #convent #dignity #following #grief

[I]t is not by being richer or more powerful that a man becomes better; one is a matter of fortune, the other of virtue. Nor should she deem herself other than venal who weds a rich man rather than a poor, and desires more things in her husband than himself. Assuredly, whomsoever this concupiscence leads into marriage deserves payment rather than affection. ↗

— Héloïse d'Argenteuil

#concupiscence #dignity #fortune #greed #honesty

Self redemption is the first step to exoneration from guilt. ↗

— Dennis E. Adonis

#forgiveness #free #guilt #imprisoned #secrets

I am ashamed the law is such an ass. ↗

— George Chapman

#ashamed #ass #i #i am #law

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#fables #lies #more #nothing #self

It is quite time that our children were taught a little more about their country, for shame's sake. ↗