"If men of eminence are exposed to censure……" — Joseph Addison
"If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If they receive reproaches which are not due to them, they likewise receive praises which they do not deserve."
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Joseph Addison
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324 Quotes by Joseph Addison
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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience…
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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had…
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If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother,…
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Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable…
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To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism…
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet…
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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret…
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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship…
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More Censure Quotes
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one of 101 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it.…
— Joseph Addison
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I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although…
— Giacomo Casanova
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We communicate happiness to others not often by great acts of devotion and self-sacrifice, but by the absence of fault-finding…
— Adam Clarke
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I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
— Alexander Pope
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Most of us who become experimental physicists do so for two reasons; we love the tools of physics because to…
— Luis Walter Alvarez
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He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of…
— William Gilmore Simms
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Careless of censure, nor too fond of fame, Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame, Averse alike to…
— Alexander Pope
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Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of…
— Tryon Edwards
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Abortion... was probably regarded by the average Roman of the later days of Paganism much as Englishmen in the last…
— William Edward Hartpole Lecky
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Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well.
— Alexander Pope
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Dat veniam corvis, vexat censura columbas. - Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove.
— Juvenal
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