Severest Quotes

44 quotes by 36 authors

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to… — Henry Ward Beecher
There is a river in the ocean. In the severest droughts it never fails, and in the mightiest floods it never overflows. Its banks and… — Matthew Fontaine Maury
We become aware, however, that all customs, even the hardest, grow pleasanter and milder with time, and that the severest way of life may become… — Friedrich Nietzsche
O neglectful Nature, wherefore art thou thus partial, becoming to some of thy children a tender and benignant mother, to others a most cruel and… — Leonardo da Vinci
Unity, to be real, must stand the severest strain without breaking. — Mahatma Gandhi
He is always the severest censor of the merit of others who has the least worth of his own. — Elias Lyman Magoon
In practice we always base our preparations against an enemy on the assumption that his plans are good; indeed, it is right to rest our… — Thucydides
We must remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school. — Thucydides
Weâ€™ve been devastated by the severest and deadliest drought in history â€“ that of our profound awareness of the futility of all effort and the… — Fernando Pessoa
Criticism does not disturb me, for I am my own severest critic. Always in my playing I strive to surpass myself, and it is this… — Jascha Heifetz
If you're not your own severest critic, you are your own worst enemy. — Jay Maisel
Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. — Charles Alexander Eastman
It oughtn't to need a war to make us talk to each other in buses, and invent our own amusements in the evenings, and live… — Jan Struther
The severest test of character is not so much the ability to keep a secret as it is, when the secret is finally out, to… — Sydney J. Harris
And only the very courageous will be able to keep alive the spirit of individualism and dissent which gave birth to this nation, nourished it… — John F. Kennedy
And moody madness laughing wild Amid severest woe. — Thomas Gray
The means by which I preserve my own health are, temperance, early rising, and spunging the body every morning with cold water, a practice I… — Astley Cooper
The severest justice may not always be the best policy — Abraham Lincoln
The severest test of work today, is not of our strategies, but of our imaginations and identities. — David Whyte
When you lose your parents as a child, you are indoctrinated into a club, you re taken into life's severest confidence. You are undeceived. — Hilary Thayer Hamann

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