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- Examine the life of the best and most productive men and nations, and ask yourselves whether a tree which is to grow… — Friedrich Nietzsche
- When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive. — Miguel de Cervantes
- If, on a rare occasion, it is necessary to speak with some severity in order to make a grievous crime felt, we… — Alphonsus Liguori
- A great deal may be done by severity, more by love, but most by clear discernment and impartial justice. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- The economic repercussions of a stock market crash depend less on the severity of the crash itself than on the response of… — Ben Bernanke
- Punishments of unreasonable severity, especially where indiscriminately afflicted, have less effect in preventing crimes, and amending the manners of a people, than… — William Blackstone
- Public emergencies may require the hand of severity to fall heavily on those who are not personally guilty, but compassion prompts, and… — Mercy Otis Warren
- An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which… — George Catlin