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
I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Affectation proceeds from one of these two causes,--vanity or hypocrisy; for as vanity puts us on affecting false characters, in order to… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Perhaps what's needed now is a bolder form of censure after all, because the Internet is not a universal human right. If… — Milo Yiannopoulos Copy Share Image
The baseline is the same. Is Iran going to suspend enrichment activity? Is Iran going to return to the negotiations? Or is… — Joseph Adam Ereli Copy Share Image
Assuming that two-thirds of the Senate will not vote to remove the president, what is the alternative? I think we need to… — Thad Cochran Copy Share Image
Julian was not insensible of the advantages of freedom. From his studies he had imbibed the spirit of ancient sages and heroes;… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The stage I chose--a subject fair and free-- 'Tis yours--'tis mine--'tis public property. All common exhibitions open lie, For praise or censure,… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker.… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
There is no contending with necessity, and we should be very tender how we censure those that submit to it. It is… — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
Everything here below beneath the sun is subject to continual change; and perhaps there is nothing which can be called more inconstant… — E. T. A. Hoffmann Copy Share Image
A people numerically large may attain to ways of thought and enterprise that no political censure can reduce to a minimum; but… — Bjornstjerne Bjornson Copy Share Image
We communicate happiness to others not often by great acts of devotion and self-sacrifice, but by the absence of fault-finding and censure,… — Adam Clarke Copy Share Image
All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that… — Moliere Copy Share Image
All our distinctions ire accidental; beauty and deformity, though personal qualities, are neither entitled to praise nor censure; yet it so happens… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the censures. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Never be afraid of the world's censure; it's praise is much more to be dreaded. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
TV is a major force in our lives - a FORCE. It must be handled very carefully, both its censure and its… — Bill Bixby Copy Share Image
If Congress were to censure, fine or otherwise try to punish a president, it would dramatically alter the balance of power between… — Mike DeWine Copy Share Image
Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves. [The innocent are punished and the wicked escape.] — Juvenal Copy Share Image
Glory relaxes often and debilitates the mind; censure stimulates and contracts,--both to an extreme. Simple fame is, perhaps, the proper medium. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
Man 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
Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I do believe that there's going to be a pretty strong consensus for a very strong .. censure resolution. — Paul Wellstone Copy Share Image
There is no defence against reproach, but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Thus men of more enlighten'd genius and more intrepid spirit must compose themselves to the risque of public censure, and the contempt… — Jon Jones Copy Share Image
There are but three ways for a man to revenge himself of the censure of the world,--to despise it, to return the… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
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