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Reproach Quotes

I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity.

Robert E. Lee (2016). “The Life and Letters of Robert E. Lee (Abridged)”, p.325, BIG BYTE BOOKS

Those who reproach injustice do so because they are afraid not of doing it but of suffering it.

Plato, G. M. A. Grube (1992). “Republic (Grube Edition)”, p.20, Hackett Publishing

Listen to the fool's reproach! It is a kingly title!

William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.185, Penguin

The Sting of a reproach, is the Truth of it.

Benjamin Franklin (1998). “Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom”, p.51, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

Praise is more obtrusive than a reproach.

Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.282, Modern Library

There are in life conjunctions of circumstances when the reproach that we are not Voltaires is least of all appropriate.

"Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends: With Biographical Sketch". Book by Anton Chekhov, 1920.

There is no wretchedness like self-reproach.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1841). “Life and literary remains of L.E.L. [ed.] by L. Blanchard”

One's conscience reproaches one much more stingingly for one's follies than one's crimes.

Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury (1892). “Selections from the Letters of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle”

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.

Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series Bundle: Books 5, 6, 7, and 8: The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.1037, Delacorte Press