"Do not so much be ashamed of that disgrace which proceeds from men's opinion as fly from that which comes from the truth."
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"I am happy to do political fundraisers. I always hope that my friends will be, too. It's part of who you are and you shouldn't feel ashamed of what you believe in."
"I didn't feel sad or happy. I didn't feel proud or ashamed. I only felt that in spite of all the things I'd done wrong, in getting myself here, I'd done right."
"don't be ashamed of anything; I guess God meant it all like locks on doors."
"I drive around the streets an inch away from weeping, ashamed of my sentimentality and possible love."
"Beware of jokes from which we go away hollow and ashamed."
"We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others."
"Character repudiates intellect, yet excites it; and character passes into thought, is published so, and then is ashamed before newflashes of moral worth."
"I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude."
"You find in some a sort of graceless modesty, that makes them ashamed to requite an obligation."
"I shall never be ashamed to quote a bad author if what he says is good."
"I'm neither embarrassed of who I am, where I come from, what I've experienced, I'm not ashamed of it."
"I was so ashamed of who I was."
"Only a man who is ashamed of what he is will marry out of his race."
"I rather want my things to be copied than me copying. I would feel ashamed!"
"There are few people who would not be ashamed of being loved when they love no longer."
"Well, upon my soul! You are not ashamed to stand there and confess yourself a disgusting drunkard."
"Whatever is, and is not ashamed to be, is good."
"And as long as you are in any way ashamed before yourself, you do not yet belong with us."
"Never be ashamed of your subject, and of your passion for your subject."