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Censure Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Censure is willingly indulged, because it always implies some superiority: men please themselves with imagining that they have made a deeper search, or wider survey…
- All violation of established practice implies in its own nature a rejection of the common opinion, a defiance of common censure, and an appeal from…
- I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty…
- All censure of a man's self is oblique praise. It is in order to show how much he can spare.
- Though it is evident, that not more than one age or people can deserve the censure of being more averse from learning than any other,…
- It is easy for a man who sits idle at home, and has nobody to please but himself, to ridicule or censure the common practices…
- Whatever is attempted without previous certainty of success, may be considered as a project, and amongst narrow minds may, therefore, expose its author to censure…
More Censure Quotes
- Careless of censure, nor too fond of fame, Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame, Averse alike to flatter or… — Alexander Pope
- 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
- He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius. — William Gilmore Simms
- Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker.… — Tryon Edwards
- If a man has the assurance within his own heart that he is worthy, and that he is laboring to the best… — Heber J. Grant
- The liberty of the press is indeed essential to the nature of a free state: but this consists in laying no previous… — William Blackstone
- Criticism can never instruct or benefit you. Its chief effect is that of a telegram with dubious news. Praise leaves no glow… — Ben Hecht
- It is easy for a man who sits idle at home, and has nobody to please but himself, to ridicule or censure… — Samuel Johnson