Careless of censure, nor too fond of fame, Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame, Averse alike to flatter or… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If we regulate our conduct according to our own convictions, we may safely disregard the praise or censure of others. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Yet censure strikes hard at women, while men, the true agents of trouble, hear no reproach.” — Euripides Copy Share Image
“Whenever they are condemning weaves or breast implants, some people speak so passionately that their false teeth almost fall out.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Mankind are very odd creatures: one half censure what they practice, the other half practice what they censure; the rest always say… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
The quicker, the louder, the applause with which another tries to gain you over to his purpose - the bitterer his censure… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
It has been shrewdly said, that when, men abuse us we should suspect ourselves, and when they praise us, them. It is… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Censure yourself, but never another. Do not discuss right or wrong. (You should live and let live, and mind your own business,… — David Tuffley Copy Share Image
Unkind people spread malicious tales, and well-intentioned people also censure; but in either case the tranquil sage remains unconcerned. Nowhere is there… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Though it is evident, that not more than one age or people can deserve the censure of being more averse from learning… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If there should chance to be any mathematicians who, ignorant in mathematics yet pretending to skill in that science, should dare, upon… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
“The moral I draw is that the writer should seek his reward in the pleasure of his work and in release from… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The Presidency, even to the most experienced politicians, is no bed of roses; and [Zachary] Taylor like others, found thorns within it.… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The censure of frequent and long parentheses has led writers into the preposterous expedient of leaving out the marks by which they… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
For war to man, like childbirth to women, is simplifying in its emotions and activities. All the real problems of life can… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
The world censures those who take up arms to defend their causes and calls on them to use nonviolent means in voicing… — Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo Copy Share Image
Indeed, the term body (jism), organs ('arad), extent (mutahayyiz) and their like are all newly-invented terminologies. We have mentioned many a time… — Ibn Taymiyyah Copy Share Image
Better mendacities Than the classics in paraphrase! Some quick to arm, some for adventure, some from fear of weakness, some from fear… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
I shall praise those faces which seem to project out of the picture as though they were sculptured, and I shall censure… — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share Image
Slander, in the strict meaning of the term, comes under the head of lying; but it is a kind of lying which,… — Washington Gladden Copy Share Image
A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Jesus Christ has undertaken by His redemption to put in me a heart so pure that God can see nothing to censure. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
I'm opposed to censure, .. Whether or not one will be permitted, it's under discussion. It isn't ruled out, but it's not… — Henry Hyde Copy Share Image
People who are obsessed with Jesus give freely and openly without censure. Obsessed people love those who hate them and who can… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
A man must serve his time to every trade, Save censure-critics all are ready made. Take hackney'd jokes from Miller, got by… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Why should we censure Othello when the Criterion Lover says, "Thou shalt have no other Gods before Me"? — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
That said, your values will not always be the object of public admiration. In fact, the more you live by your beliefs,… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Censure is a limp noodle across the wrist of the president. I think the way we vote on the articles will express… — Larry Craig Copy Share Image
“[M]an is not permitted without censure to follow his own thoughts in the search of truth, when they lead him ever so… — John Locke Copy Share Image
The silence of a friend commonly amounts to treachery. His not daring to say anything in our behalf implies a tacit censure. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Neither human applause nor human censure is to be taken as the best of truth; but either should set us upon testing… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
The praise of the envious is far less creditable than their censure; they praise only that which they can surpass, but that… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well. What satire on government can equal the severity… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius. — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
The vulgar mind fancies that good judgment is implied chiefly in the capacity to censure; and yet there is no judgment so… — Walter Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
To arrive at perfection, a man should have very sincere friends or inveterate enemies; because he would be made sensible of his… — Diogenes Copy Share Image
[T]he 47th proposition in Euclid might now be voted down with as much ease as any proposition in politics; and therefore if… — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
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