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Reproach Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach.
- To scatter praise or blame without regard to justice is to destroy the distinction of good and evil. Many have no other test of actions…
- As the faculty of writing has chiefly been a masculine endowment, the reproach of making the world miserable has always been thrown upon the women.
More Reproach Quotes
- Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. — Aristotle
- Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some… — Louisa May Alcott
- If you do not leave this pasturage, Saladin will come and attack you here. And if you retreat from this attack the… — Unknown Author
- There is no defense against reproach, but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness. — Joseph Addison
- He, who survives his reputation, lives out of despite himself, like a man listening to his own reproach. — Thomas Paine
- Sweet shall be your rest if your heart does not reproach you. — Thomas a Kempis
- Praise is more obtrusive than a reproach. — Friedrich Nietzsche
- A woman springs a sudden reproach upon you which provokes a hot retort, and then she will presently ask you to apologize. — Mark Twain