Nothing is more humiliating than when a reproach recoils on the head or him who utters it.
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It is the action of an uninstructed person to reproach others for his own misfortune; of one entering instruction, to reproach himself; and one perfectly instructed, to reproach neither others nor himself.
Epictetus in Enchiridion
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The stone often recoils on the head of the thrower.
quote by Elizabeth I
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A person's cleverness is not shown by how many words he utters at once but how he utters them.
The mouth often utters that which the head must answer for.
Name of God
He who utters the Name of God while walking
gets the merit of a sacrifice at every step
His body becomes a place of pilgrimage.
He who repeats God’s Name while working
always finds perfect peace.
He who utters the Name of God while eating
gets the merit of a fast
even though he has taken his meals.
Even if one were to give in charity
the whole world encircled by the seas
it would not equal the merit of repeating the Name,
By the power of the Name
one will know what cannot be known,
One will see what cannot be seen,
One will speak what cannot be spoken,
One will meet what cannot be met.
Tuka says.
Incalculable is the gain that comes
From repeating the Name of God.
poem by Sant Tukaram
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Do Not Reproach
Do not reproach your dear and beloved brother,
Beckon him now, summon his spirit so as to love him,
Considerably, lovingly, beautifully, and responsibly.
Then your sister contains the entire mouth of pleasant news.
Good evenings belong to the children of the adults,
Adults speak so well of hidden nights and days.
Do not reproach your family over nothing,
For nothingness is not for humans, humans just please.
poem by Naveed Akram
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It is a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it.
I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid.
quote by Ruth Rendell
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Hidden Sorrow
Only because i smile,
Doesn't prove my glee,
For my hidden sorrow,
Is now controlling me,
This sea of melancholy,
Is slowly drowning me,
Under the burning crimson sky,
And screeching black stars,
the contempt that boils within,
Creates only a greater sorrow,
This contempt for myself,
And the reproach I give myself,
This reproach I can't bear,
This abuse I can't withstand,
the torment and pain,
Feds my growing hidden sorrow,
poem by Paurakh Shrestha
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Counselor
Great thinkers were placed under arrest
And are awaiting life sentences in the confines of their minds
Human organs decay as the spirit recoils in horror
Dying patients suffering from legion of the body and mind
The sounds of the apocalypse are only beautiful
Because they are earth's final words
Automobiles, gunshots, and atom bombs echo in my head
And for one brief holy moment
Past present and future come together to form the perfect life
For all to experience
We are all Messiahs
poem by C.S. Smith
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
quote by Gustave Flaubert
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Poetry transforms and redeems the common, the hurtful, the humiliating.
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Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a Sunday newspaper in America?
quote by Johan Huizinga
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Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?
quote by Patrick Henry
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My mother gets all mad at me if I stay in a hotel. I'm 31-years-old, and I don't want to sleep on a sleeping bag down in the basement. It's humiliating.
quote by Ben Affleck
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I have just gone over my comet computations again, and it is humiliating to perceive how very little more I know than I did seven years ago when I first did this kind of work.
quote by Maria Mitchell
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Trying on pants is one of the most humiliating things a man can suffer that doesn't involve a woman.
quote by Larry David
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I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.
quote by Christopher Hampton
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There Is A Bondage Worse, Far Worse, To Bear
THERE is a bondage worse, far worse, to bear
Than his who breathes, by roof, and floor, and wall,
Pent in, a Tyrant's solitary Thrall:
'Tis his who walks about in the open air,
One of a Nation who, henceforth, must wear
Their fetters in their souls. For who could be,
Who, even the best, in such condition, free
From self-reproach, reproach that he must share
With Human-nature? Never be it ours
To see the sun how brightly it will shine,
And know that noble feelings, manly powers,
Instead of gathering strength, must droop and pine;
And earth with all her pleasant fruits and flowers
Fade, and participate in man's decline.
poem by William Wordsworth
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We're a sentimental people. We like a few kind words better than millions of dollars given in a humiliating way.
quote by Gamal Abdel Nasser
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