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  • Men go where they will, they do as they must; it is not a woman's part to bid them to stay, nor yet to reproach them for being what they are-or for not coming back.

    Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series Bundle: Books 5, 6, 7, and 8: The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.1037, Delacorte Press
  • He was a foe without hate; a friend without treachery; a soldier without cruelty; a victor without oppression, and a victim without murmuring. He was a public officer without vices; a private citizen without wrong; a neighbor without reproach; a Christian without hypocrisy, and a man without guile. He was a Caesar, without his ambition; Frederick, without his tyranny; Napoleon, without his selfishness, and Washington, without his reward.

    Benjamin Harvey Hill (1891). “Senator Benjamin H. Hill of Georgia: His Life, Speeches and Writings”
  • In every community there are little knots of fantastic extremists who loudly proclaim that they are striving for righteousness, and who, in reality, do their feeble best for unrighteousness. Just as the upright politician should hold in peculiar scorn the man who makes the name of politician a reproach and a shame, so the genuine reformer should realize that the cause he champions is especially jeopardized by the mock reformer who does what he can to make reform a laughingstock among decent men.

    Reality   Men   Names  
    Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”, p.22, Courier Corporation
  • I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul...Since I knew you, I have been troubled by a remorse that I thought would never reproach me again, and have heard whispers from old voices impelling me upward, that I thought were silent for ever. I have had unformed ideas of striving afresh, beginning anew, shaking off sloth and sensuality, and fighting out the abandoned fight. A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.

    Dream   Fighting   Cities  
  • Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach.

    A Dictionary of the English Language preface (1755)
  • No reproach is like that we clothe in a smile, and present with a bow.

    Bows   Reproach  
  • To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.

    May   Resentment   Shows  
  • Gentleness is the ability to bear reproaches and slights with moderation, and not to embark on revenge quickly, and not to be easily provoked to anger, but be free from bitterness and contentiousness, having tranquility and stability in the spirit.

    Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.2944, Delphi Classics
  • I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless; That only men incredulous of despair, half-taught in anguish, through the midnight air beat upward to god's throne in loud access of shrieking and reproach

    Grief   Men   Air  
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.80
  • 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.

    Taken   Two   Mind  
    Sophocles, Hugh Lloyd-Jones (1996). “Sophocles: Fragments”, p.245, Harvard University Press
  • Let dissolution come when it will, it can do the Christian no harm, for it will be but a passage out of a prison into a palace; out of a sea of troubles into a haven of rest; out of a crowd of enemies, to an innumerable company of true, loving, and faithful friends; out of shame, reproach, and contempt, into exceeding great and eternal glory.

    John Bunyan (1850). “The Riches of Bunyan”, p.423
  • He finished the bandage and was examining it critically. "You know those things are unreliable." His voice held just a touch of reproach. “Eleven out of twelve work fine. I’d say that’s better chances than getting an orgasm with a blind date and women still try.

    Voice   Trying   Twelve  
    Ilona Andrews (2012). “Magic Bites: A Special Edition of the First Kate Daniels Novel”, p.80, Penguin
  • It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.

    Cheerful   London   Speak  
    Henry James, F. O. Matthiessen, Kenneth B. Murdock (1981). “The Notebooks of Henry James”, p.27, University of Chicago Press
  • Thou lovest like an infinite God when Thou lovest; Thou movest heaven and earth to save Thy loved ones. Thou becomest man, a babe, the vilest of men, covered with reproaches, dying with infamy and under the pangs of the cross; all this is not too much for an infinite love.

    Men   Heaven   Dying  
    Francois Fenelon (2014). “Spiritual Progress”, p.14, Lulu.com
  • If it be admitted that a man, possessing absolute power, may misuse that power by wronging his adversaries, why should a majority not be liable to the same reproach? Men are not apt to change their character by agglomeration; nor does their patience in the presence of obstacles increase with the consciousness of their strength. And for these reasons I can never willingly invest any number of my fellow creatures with that unlimited authority which I should refuse to any one of them.

    Character   Men   Numbers  
    Alexis de Tocqueville, John Canfield Spencer (1854). “American Institutions and Their Influence”, p.260
  • 'Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed, When not to be, receives reproach of being, And the just pleasure lost, which is so deemed, Not by our feeling, but by others' seeing.

    William Shakespeare (1866). “The Works of William Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra. Cynbeline. Pericles. Poems”, p.612
  • If I am perturbed by the reproach and misunderstanding that may follow action taken for the good of souls for whom I must give account; if I cannot commit the matter and go on in peace and in silence, remembering Gethsemane and the cross, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

    Peace   Taken   Giving  
    Amy Carmichael (2016). “If: Devotional Edition”, p.23, Aneko Press
  • There are many who say to the Lord, "I give myself wholly to Thee, without any reserve," but there are few who embrace the practice of this abandonment, which consists in receiving with a certain indifference every sort of event, as it happens in conformity with Divine Providence, as well afflictions as consolations, contempt and reproaches as honor and glory.

    Practice   Giving   Honor  
  • To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good... Ideology - that is what gives devildoing its long-sought justification and gives the evildoer the necessary steadfastness and determination. That is the social theory which helps to make his acts seem good instead of bad in his own and others' eyes, so that he won't hear reproaches and curses but will receive praise and honors.

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

    Men   Done   Turns  
    Demosthenes (2015). “Complete Works of Demosthenes (Delphi Classics)”, p.2206, Delphi Classics
  • There is no defence against reproach, but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph.

    "The Works of Joseph Addison".
  • Praise is more obtrusive than a reproach.

    Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.282, Modern Library
  • There is nothing more dreadful to an author than neglect; compared with which reproach, hatred, and opposition are names of happiness; yet this worst, this meanest fate, every one who dares to write has reason to fear.

    Writing   Fate   Names  
    Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1828). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.128
  • What with the reviews of critics, the sarcasms of one's friends, the reproaches of one's own taste, there's precious little peace after publishing a book.

    Book   Sarcasm   Littles  
  • Can there be any greater reproach than an idle learning? Learn to split wood, at least.

    Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.516, Simon and Schuster
  • 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 (2004). “The Shorter Novels of Charles Dickens”, p.561, Wordsworth Editions
  • Beggars beg to get money, not to reproach the passerby.

    Money   Begging   Beggar  
  • The reproaches against science for not having yet solved the problems of the universe are exaggerated in an unjust and malicious manner; it has truly not had time enough yet for these great achievements. Science is very young--a human activity which developed late.

    Sigmund Freud, Angela Richards (1964). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”
  • I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history.

    "History of England" by Thomas B. Macaulay, Vol. I, (Ch. 1), 1849-1861.
  • When people reproach us, they only increase their own failings even as they are disclaiming them.

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