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Love taught him shame; and shame, with love at strife,
Soon taught the sweet civilities of life.
Love taught him shame; and shame, with love at strife,
Soon taught the sweet civilities of life.
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.
Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.
Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.
I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right -- shame on you!
I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right -- shame on you!
Here shame dissuades him, there his fear prevails,
And each by turns his aching heart assails.
Here shame dissuades him, there his fear prevails,
And each by turns his aching heart assails.
I am not ashamed that these reproaches can be cast upon us, and
that they can not be repelled.
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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.]
We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything
that is real about us; ashamed of read more
We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything
that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of
our incomes, of our accents, of our opinion, of our experience,
just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.