"Be not so severe as to cause shyness,……" — Saadi
"Be not so severe as to cause shyness, nor so clement as to encourage boldness."
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107 Quotes by Saadi
Saadi has 107 quotes on this site.
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When you see contention amongst your enemies, go and sit at ease with your friends; but when you see them…
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Inflict not on an enemy every injury in your power, for he may afterwards become your friend.
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He will deal harshly by a stranger who has not been himself often a traveller or stranger.
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Oh God, I say not hear my prayers! I say: Blot with forgiving pen my sins away!
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Now that another is suffering pain at thy hand, trust not that thy heart shall be exempt from affliction.
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Expose not the secret failings of mankind, otherwise you must verily bring scandal upon them and distrust upon yourself.
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There is no great difficulty to separate the soul from the body, but it is not so easy to restore…
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The best loved by God are those that are rich, yet have the humility of the poor, and those that…
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The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.
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To tell a falsehood is like the cut of a saber: for though the wound may heal, the scar of…
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A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains,…
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Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your…
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More Boldness Quotes
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Prometheus heretofore went up to Heaven, and stole fire from thence. Have not I as much Boldness as he?
— Cyrano de Bergerac
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Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't…
— Alan Alda
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Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then…
— Jean Anouilh
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Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The breeze of grace is always blowing; set your sail to catch that breeze.
— Ramakrishna
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Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. -Johann Wolfgang…
— Frank Sinatra
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A garden was the primitive prison, till man with Promethean felicity and boldness, luckily sinned himself out of it.
— Charles Lamb
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I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith…
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Profoundness, genius, spontaneity, merit, nobility, ingenuity, voice propriety, feeling, discernment, sensibility, good taste, great tone, rightness, courtliness, vivacity, boldness, style,…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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O God, make us desperate, and grant us faith and boldness to approach Your throne and make our petitions known,…
— Nancy Leigh DeMoss
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If heaven were by merit, it would never be heaven to me, for if I were in it I should…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Luke associates John with Peter in Acts, when, after the Resurrection, that strange boldness had come upon the disciples.
— Alfred Noyes
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