"Praise from a friend, or censure from a……" — Alexander Pope

More Censure Quotes

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• It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it.… — Joseph Addison
• I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although… — Giacomo Casanova
• We communicate happiness to others not often by great acts of devotion and self-sacrifice, but by the absence of fault-finding… — Adam Clarke
• I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of… — Thomas Jefferson
• If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the… — Joseph Addison
• Most of us who become experimental physicists do so for two reasons; we love the tools of physics because to… — Luis Walter Alvarez
• He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of… — William Gilmore Simms
• Careless of censure, nor too fond of fame, Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame, Averse alike to… — Alexander Pope
• Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of… — Tryon Edwards
• Abortion... was probably regarded by the average Roman of the later days of Paganism much as Englishmen in the last… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky
• Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well. — Alexander Pope
• Dat veniam corvis, vexat censura columbas. - Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove. — Juvenal

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