"To do nothing was disgraceful; therefore I made……" — Horatio Nelson

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• Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a… — Karen Armstrong
• If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead.… — Aeschylus
• If you only notice human proceedings, you may observe that all who attain great power and riches, make use of… — Niccolo Machiavelli
• Hard as it may appear in individual cases, dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful. — Thomas Malthus
• Imagine the National Guard being called against a group of peaceful people. How far can we get; how disgraceful can… — Cesar Chavez
• Wars of opinion, as they have been the most destructive, are also the most disgraceful of conflicts. — Charles Caleb Colton
• Humility is not disgraceful, and carries no loss of true pride. — Ernest Hemingway
• The most disgraceful cause of the scarcity [of remedies] is that even those who know them do not want to… — Pliny the Elder
• An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful. — Thucydides
• The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind. — George Mason
• "thanks" in MaoriGrateful living: an alchemic operation of converting "disgraceful" things into grateful events. — Raimon Panikkar
• To destroy governmental violence, only one thing is needed: It is that people should understand that the feeling of patriotism,… — Leo Tolstoy

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