“Avoid shame, but do not seek glory, — nothing so expensive as glory.”
Sydney Smith (1771–1845) English writer and clergyman
Vol. I, ch. 4
Lady Holland's Memoir (1855)
“Glory, built
On selfish principles, is shame and guilt.”
Source: Table Talk (1782), Line 1.
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On selfish principles, is shame and guilt." by William Cowper?
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(1731–1800) English poet and hymnodist 1731–1800Related quotes
“Cowardice rightly understood begins with selfishness and ends with shame.”
José Rizal book Noli Me Tángere
Source: Noli Me Tángere
“Aye, I built in woe. God willed it;
Woe that passeth ghosts of guilt.”
Joaquin Miller (1837–1913) American judge
"Juanita".
In Classic Shades, and Other Poems (1890)
Context: p>Dear, I took these trackless masses
Fresh from Him who fashioned them;
Wrought in rock, and hewed fair passes,
Flower set, as sets a gem.Aye, I built in woe. God willed it;
Woe that passeth ghosts of guilt.
Yet I built as His birds builded —
Builded singing as I built.All is finished! Roads of flowers
Wait your loyal little feet.
All completed? Nay, the hours
Till you come are incomplete.</p
“Men the most infamous are fond of fame,
And those who fear not guilt yet start at shame.”
Charles Churchill (satirist) (1731–1764) British poet
The Author (1763), line 233
“The other's glory seems to make him prey
to shame, as though reproached for coward fear.”
Torquato Tasso (1544–1595) Italian poet
Par che la sua viltà rimproverarsi
Senta nell'altrui gloria, e se ne rode.
Canto VIII, stanza 11 (tr. Wickert)
Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)
Brennan Manning (1934–2013) writer, American Roman Catholic priest and United States Marine
John Brunner book The Jagged Orbit
Source: The Jagged Orbit (1969), Chapter 3, “Spoolpigeon” (p. 10)