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• When an oath is taken ... the mind is more attentive; for it guards against two things, the reproach of friends and offence against the gods.

  Sophocles

  Taken, Two, Mind

  Sophocles, Hugh Lloyd-Jones (1996). “Sophocles: Fragments”, p.245, Harvard University Press

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• As long as one is following the right way, one should never be concerned about the reproaches of those who like to find faults.

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Long, Way, Faults

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• Strictures, reproaches, and intemperate speeches from the Senator of Louisiana are really the wailings of an apostle of despair; he has lost control of himself, he is trying to play billiards with elliptical billiard balls and a spiral cue.

  Huey Long

  Play, Despair, Trying

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• He who would reproach an author for obscurity should look into his own mind to see whether it is quite clear there. In the dusk the plainest writing is illegible.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Writing, Mind, Obscurity

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• I will not dwell on, nor mourn over, our untimely decay, nor reproach my paleface brothers with hastening it, as we too may have been somewhat to blame.

  Chief Seattle

  Brother, Decay, May

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• He was touched in the cavity where his heart should have been, in that nest of addled eggs, where the birds of heaven would have lived if they had not been whistled away, by the fervour of this reproach.

  Charles Dickens

  Heart, Should Have, Eggs

  Charles Dickens (2004). “The Shorter Novels of Charles Dickens”, p.561, Wordsworth Editions

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• A reproach can only hurt if it hits the mark. Whoever knows that he does not deserve a reproach can treat it with contempt.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Hurt, Doe, Treats

  "Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851.

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• The gap between ideals and actualities, between dreams and achievements, the gap that can spur strong men to increased exertions, but can break the spirit of others -- this gap is the most conspicuous, continuous land mark in American history. It is conspicuous and continuous not because Americans achieve little, but because they dream grandly. The gap is a standing reproach to Americans; but it marks them off as a special and singularly admirable community among the world's peoples.

  George Will

  Dream, Strong, Men

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• The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact.

  Aldous Huxley

  Forgiveness, Men, Self

  Aldous Huxley (1953). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

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• Submissiveness to fate, the total abdication of your own will in the shaping of your life, the recognition that it was impossible to guess the best and the worst ahead of time but that it was easy to take a step you would reproach yourself for-all this freed the prisoner from any bondage, made him calmer, and even ennobled him.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Fate, Abdication, Steps

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• How marvelous it all is! Built not by saints and angels, but the work of men's hands; cemented with men's honest blood and with a world of tears, welded by the best brains of centuries past; not without the taint and reproach incidental to all human work, but constructed on the whole with pure and splendid purpose. Human, and yet not wholly human -- for the most heedless and the most cynical must see the finger of the Divine.

  Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery

  Angel, Past, Men

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• We ought not to heap reproaches on old age, seeing that we all hope to reach it.

  Wilfred Bion

  Age, Ought, Seeing

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• What is guilt? It is moral self-reproach-I did wrong when it was possible to have done otherwise.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Self, Guilt, Done

  Nathaniel Branden (1998). “Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality”, p.264, Simon and Schuster

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• If you are not willing to take the shame on yourself, you then let it remain on Jesus Christ. You must bear the reproach of your sinful state of indifference, or the cause of our Master must bear it.

  Mordecai

  Jesus, Causes, Bears

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• A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom.

  Alfred de Vigny

  Essence, Heaven, Despair

  "Journal d'un poète"by Alfred de Vigny, (p. 32), 1949.

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• Give me the boy who rouses when he is praised, who profits when he is encouraged and who cries when he is defeated. Such a boy will be fired by ambition; he will be stung by reproach, and animated by preference; never shall I apprehend any bad consequences from idleness in such a boy.

  Quintilian

  Ambition, Boys, Giving

  Quintilian (1805). “Quinctilian's Institutes of Eloquence: Or, The Art of Speaking in Public, in Every Character and Capacity”, p.26

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• Wisdom and virtue are by no means sufficient, without the supplemental laws of good-breeding, to secure freedom from degenerating into rudeness, or self esteem from swelling into insolence. A thousand incivilities may be committed, and a thousand offices neglected. without any remorse of conscience, or reproach from reason.

  Samuel Johnson

  Self Esteem, Mean, Law

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay”, p.459

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• Madness, provided it comes as the gift of heaven, is the channel by which we receive the greatest blessings... the men of old who gave things their names saw no disgrace or reproach in madness; otherwise they would not have connected it with the name of the noblest of arts, the art of discerning the future, and called it the manic art... So, according to the evidence provided by our ancestors, madness is a nobler thing than sober sense... madness comes from God, whereas sober sense is merely human.

  Plato

  Art, Blessing, Men

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• We should clearly understand that only the voluntary and conscientious acceptance by a people of its guilt can ensure the healing of a nation. Unremitting reproaches from outside are counterproductive.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Healing, Acceptance, People

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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• What was it that obliged Jerome to write his book, Concerning Illustrious Men? It was the common reproach of old cast upon Christians, 'That they were all poor, weak, unlearned men.' The sort of men sometime called 'Puritans' in the English nation have been reproached with the same character. . . But when truth shall have liberty to speak, it will be known that Christianity never was more expressed unto the life than in the lives of the persons that have been thus reproached.

  Cotton Mather

  Christian, Book, Writing

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• Truth must be sought at all costs, but separate isolated truths will not do. Truth is like life; it has to be taken on its entirety or not at all. . . . We must welcome truth even if it reproaches and inconveniences us -- even if it appears in the place where we thought it could not be found.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Taken, Cost, Welcome

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• Children of God should not make a general confession by acknowledging their innumerable sins in a vague manner, because such confession does not provide conscience opportunity to do its perfect work. They ought to allow the Holy Spirit through their conscience to point out their sins one by one. Christians must accept its reproach and be willing, according to the mind of the Spirit, to eliminate everything which is contrary to God.

  Watchman Nee

  Christian, Children, Opportunity

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Spiritual Man”, p.496, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• With throbbing veins and burning skin, eyes wild and heavy, thoughts hurried and disordered, he felt as though the light were a reproach, and shrunk involuntarily from the day as if he were some foul and hideous thing.

  Charles Dickens

  Eye, Light, Skins

  Charles Dickens (1839). “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby”, p.502

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• There are no normal people, there are just different kinds of weird, all of it is human and all humanity is better than everything inhuman. So I urge you to keep expressing yourself as honestly as you can, and know that the backpedals and second-guesses really aren't necessary - they don't hurt but they're wasting your time - because when you are truly human, as we all are, and when that is your honest message to anyone, you are beyond reproach, there is no way to screw it up.

  Dan Harmon

  Hurt, People, Humanity

  Redit AMA, www.reddit.com. August 22, 2012.

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• If a well-constituted individual refrains from blazoning aught amiss or calamitous in his family, a nation in the like circumstance may without reproach be equally discreet.

  Herman Melville

  History, May, Individual

  Herman Melville (2016). “Billy Budd, Bartleby, and Other Stories”, p.165, Penguin

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