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I hope it will always be a subject of humiliating reflection to me, that I was once an active instrument, in a business at which my heart now shudders.
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The speaker hopes he will always feel ashamed when remembering that he once played an active part in something he now finds deeply horrifying. “Humiliating reflection” shows painful self-judgment, while “my heart now shudders” conveys a strong emotional rejection of that past involvement.
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- Project Gutenberg, *Thoughts Upon the African Slave Trade*
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