Quote by Edmund Burke
Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in

Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants. – Edmund Burke

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People will not look forward to posterity who will not look backward to their ancestors. – Edmund Burke

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And having looked to government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them. To avoid that evil, government will redouble the causes of it; and then it will become inveterate and incurable. – Edmund Burke

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When all our deeds of glory are laid in front of Thee, – Connie Dover

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The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but the ignominy, the humiliation we feel that we must be what we are without any choice in the matter, and that this humiliation is seen by everyone. – Milan Kundera

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Shame is worse than death. – Proverb

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When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty. – St. Gregory The Great

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Learning is always rebellion… Every bit of new truth discovered is revolutionary to what was believed before. – Margaret Lee Runbeck

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