#reproach

Are not half our lives spent in reproaches for foregone actions, of the true nature and consequences of which we were wholly ignorant at the time? ↗

— Herman Melville

#reproach #waste #nature

Knight without fear and without reproach. ↗

— Richard Harris Barham

#knight #reproach #without

Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing, wanderings, reproaches, and sufferings. ↗

— Donald Cargill

#believing #christ #earthly #enjoyments #farewell

To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach. ↗

— Demosthenes

#good #him #like #man #much

If we should ever get to Heaven, we shall find nobody to reproach us for being black, or for being slaves. ↗

— Jupiter Hammon

#black #ever #find #get #heaven

Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#bear #earn #name #rejoice #reproach

We reproach people for talking about themselves; but it is the subject they treat best. ↗

— Anatole France

#best #people #reproach #subject #talking

Educational legislation nowadays is largely in the hands of illiterate people, and the illiterate will take good care that their illiteracy is not made a reproach on them. ↗

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

#educational #good #hands #illiteracy #illiterate

But I felt all the more bound to make this proposal, because it at once turns to a reproach. ↗

— Ferdinand Lassalle

#bound #felt #i #make #more

I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity. ↗

— Robert E. Lee

#consciences #doing #even #i #i think