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Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.
Knight without fear and without reproach.
The Sting of a reproach, is the Truth of it.
There is no wretchedness like self-reproach.
Affection reproaches, but does not denounce.
Some reproaches praise; some praises reproach.
Listen to the fool's reproach! It is a kingly title!
Righteousness exalts a nation, and sin brings reproach.
There are reproaches which praise, and praises which defame.
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
No reproach is like that we clothe in a smile, and present with a bow.
The reproach of a friend should be strictly just, but not too frequent.
We ought not to heap reproaches on old age, seeing that we all hope to reach it.
To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.
A great philosophy is not a philosophy without reproach; it is philosophy without fear.
We reproach people for talking about themselves; but it is the subject they treat best.
One's conscience reproaches one much more stingingly for one's follies than one's crimes.
But I felt all the more bound to make this proposal, because it at once turns to a reproach.
Those who reproach injustice do so because they are afraid not of doing it but of suffering it.
I reproach so many things about my family, but on the other hand, I kept asking them to be my family.
We can live our own lives in a way that does not bring reproach on the principles we claim to support.
So far as regards their moral character, the Finns have as little cause for reproach as any other people.
If we should ever get to Heaven, we shall find nobody to reproach us for being black, or for being slaves.
I must work hard to make my singing above reproach; there must be no faults which hard work would take care of.
John Cena's work ethic is beyond reproach. It's been phenomenal to see what he does and he's made himself a brand.
He passes through life most securely who has least reason to reproach himself with complaisance toward his enemies.
There are in life conjunctions of circumstances when the reproach that we are not Voltaires is least of all appropriate.
I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity.
It seems that whatever we do is somehow beyond reproach - murder, rape, drunk driving - as long as we go on a TV show and apologize.
My father is a man of impeccable character who has worked tirelessly for the United Nations for many years. His integrity is beyond reproach.
Reproach is shame, blame, disgrace, disapproval and a disrespectful attitude toward yourself. When you're under reproach, your behavior shows it.
There is no question of defence. I have always acted in accordance with the dictates of my conscience. I have nothing with which to reproach myself.
The law requires a paper towel ad to be scrupulously honest, but allows political candidates to lie without reproach. What's wrong with this picture?
On the day, therefore, when I went to the church to be confirmed, with a number of others, I suffered extremely from the reproaches of my conscience.
Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.
Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.
Unemployment is a great tragedy. The man who goes about hopelessly seeking work in order to earn bread for his children is a living reproach to civilization.
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.
Educational legislation nowadays is largely in the hands of illiterate people, and the illiterate will take good care that their illiteracy is not made a reproach on them.
I can't even explain to you how terrible that feels, that I equate dating a woman with punishment, shame, guilt, disappointment, reproach, reprimand, persecution. It's a nightmare.
I believe that the 'believe all women' vision of feminism unintentionally fetishizes women. Women are no longer human and flawed. They are Truth personified. They are above reproach.
Therefore, don't let sinners take courage to think they will be favoured like the thief on the cross; for we see on the other side, they may be like the hardened one, and reproach death itself.
Behold, I am become a reproach to thy holy name, by serving any ambition and the sins of others; which though I did by the persuasion of other men, yet my own conscience did cheek and upbraid me in it.
In Minnesota, we hold our leaders to a higher standard. We demand that the men and women we send to Washington stand above reproach and steer clear of the web of corruption, kickbacks and special favors.
I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history if I can succeed in placing before the English of the nineteenth century a true picture of the life of their ancestors.
As I read the scriptures, it appears that those who receive the Savior's strongest reproach are often those who hold themselves in high esteem because of their wealth, influence, or perceived righteousness.
There is a solid satisfaction in one's having and being conscious that he merits the good opinion of men of true discernment and real worth. But to have a name among the weak and the wicked is shame and reproach.
Our own theological Church, as we know, has scorned and vilified the body till it has seemed almost a reproach and a shame to have one, yet at the same time has credited it with power to drag the soul to perdition.