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The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
A nightingale dies for shame if another bird sings better.
A nightingale dies for shame if another bird sings better.
The only art her guilt to cover,
To hide her shame from every eye,
To give repentance read more
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.
The only shame is to have none
The only shame is to have none
Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
If yet not lost to all the sense of shame.
If yet not lost to all the sense of shame.
Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.
Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.
He was not born to shame.
Upon his brow shame is ashamed to sit;
For 'tis a read more
He was not born to shame.
Upon his brow shame is ashamed to sit;
For 'tis a throne where honor may be crowned
Sole monarch of the universal earth.