Shame is the greatest of all Evils; what avail Laws, when Death only attends the Breach of them, and Shame Obedience to them?

Shame is the tender moral conscience of good men.

Man, who looks at nature and thinks and feels about its unconscious unfeeling order; man, with his temptations, his glory, and his shame, his heights of goodness, and depths of infamy, is not one with those innocent and soulless forces so sternly immutable"the blowing clouds and falling rain."

Shame, self-contempt, remorse have been an infinitely heavier burden.

And yet there are cases where shame is the very best possible remedy for juvenile faults.

I answered as best I might, but I fear me my speech came but falteringly, what with my heart beating against my ribs like the armor-smith's hammer, and the thought uppermost in my mind of the dark business yet to come that night, before the shame and wrong of it all might be righteda black business that none but I in all that company wotted of.

Shame, then, not fear, is the sheet-anchor of the law.

"Jesus Christ commends himself to our confidence and love," he says, "on the ground of his being the truth;... and makes it the glory of the Father that he is the God of truth, and the shame and everlasting infamy of the prince of darkness that he is the father of lies;" and he adds: "The mind cannot move in charity, nor rest in Providence, unless it turn upon the poles of truth."

I soon left the home now rendered gloomy by the absence of her whom I had so tenderly loved, and going to Leavenworth I entered upon a dissolute and reckless lifeto my shame be it saidand associated with gamblers, drunkards, and bad characters generally.

Shame be thy meed, and mischiefe thy reward, Due to thy selfe, that it for me prepard!

shame of the shuffle-tonguedhe was, too, a punster.

So much for shame's being a dreadful and horrible thing.

Shame that I belonged to a race that could be so dealt with; and shame for my country, that it, the great example of democracy to the world, should be the only civilized, if not the only state on earth, where a human being would be burned alive.

O bitter shame, be garr.

" Mencius had taught centuries before, in almost the identical phrase, what Carlyle has latterly expressed,namely, that "Shame is the soil of all Virtue, of good manners and good morals.

You imagined that the shame of being a negro swallowed up every other ignominy,and in your eyes I am a negro, though I am your sister, and you are white, and people have taken me for you on the streets,and you, therefore, left me nameless all my life!

They say Jacopo is revengeful, and that shame and anger at his defeat in the late regatta, by one old as this, was the reason.

The shame of that one defeat will be worth to us hereafter a hundred victories.

Shame is an invaluable protection to men, as a restraining feeling.

He such exposure dares defy, Public shame is not his fear; He who can vouch the solemn lie, Would shew his forehead any where.

Our brother, though greatly exhausted, was compelled to walk the same distance down again; forto the shame, the everlasting shame of our city be it spokenour brother, on account of his colour, could not avail himself of one of the public conveyances.

Sadly and sullenly he used his chisel year by year, making the very stones cry that shame and ruin were the doom of his country.

Shame on them were the cause of it.

But whether pride or whether shame was the more powerful motive in committing suicide, I do not read that she was a victim of remorse.

Shame isn't smokeit won't eat out your eyes.