Severest Quotes

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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
We’ve been devastated by the severest and deadliest drought in history – 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
At times of the severest depression, humor is what binds people together. — Robert Carlyle
The severest punishment suffered by a sensitive mind, for injury inflicted upon another, is the consciousness of having done it. — Hosea Ballou
My definition of democracy is - A form and a method of Government whereby revolutionary changes in the social life are brought about without bloodshed.… — B R Ambedkar
The severest trial of oppression is the constant outrage which one suffers at the thought of the oppressor. What Jesus discovered was how to avoid… — B.F. Skinner
What a singular fact for an angel visitant to this earth to carry back in his note-book, that men were forbidden to expose their bodies… — Henry David Thoreau

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