So far as regards their moral character, the Finns have as little cause for reproach as any other people.
We can live our own lives in a way that does not bring reproach on the principles we claim to support.
Not only did the angry villagers hound their monsters to the edge of town, they reproached her for being vulnerable to the torches.
Mage-taught wisdom reproached him: any gift of power was two-edged.
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.
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.
Think, speak, and act. With age comes self-reproach: I might have done more. Therefore now do!
It was not an enemy that reproached me, then I could have borne it. Psalms, 55:12
I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity.
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.
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.
Death is the ultimate enemy - and I find nothing reproachable in those who rage mightily against the dying of the light.
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.
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?
Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing, wanderings, reproaches, and sufferings.
There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
If we should ever get to Heaven, we shall find nobody to reproach us for being black, or for being slaves.
Democracy is reproached with saying that the majority is always right. But progress says that the minority is always right.
My father is a man of impeccable character who has worked tirelessly for the United Nations for many years. His integrity is beyond 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.
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.
