Censures Quotes
13 quotes by 12 authors
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An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the censures.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, and next to escape the censures of the world. If the last…
— Joseph Addison
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To arrive at perfection, a man should have very sincere friends or inveterate enemies; because he would be made sensible of his good or ill…
— Diogenes
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One wonders why there are so many women who follow Robespierre to his home, to the Jacobins, to the Cordeliers and to the Convention. It…
— Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet
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The world censures those who take up arms to defend their causes and calls on them to use nonviolent means in voicing their grievances. But…
— Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo
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Be not diverted from your duty by any idle reflections the silly world may make upon you, for their censures are not in your power…
— Epictetus
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Self-centered anger generates evil, but wrath at social injustice becomes the driving force for reform. Strong language that censures and combats a great evil often…
— Daisaku Ikeda
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Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.
— Plato
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Did I, my lines intend for public view,How many censures, would their faults pursue,Some would, because such words they do affect,Cry they're insipid, empty, uncorrect.And…
— Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea
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A dozen direct censures are easier to bear than one morganatic compliment.
— Mark Twain
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Trust him little who praise all, him less who censures all and him least who is indifferent about all.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
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A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, his next to escape the censures of the world
— English Proverb
Who Wrote These Censures Quotes
12 authors contributed a total of 13 Censures Quotes as follows: