Calumny Quotes
These are some of the best 'Calumny' quotations and sayings.
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Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Get thee to a nunnery, go.
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Believe nothing against another, but on good authority; nor report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it.
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Calumniate, calumniate; there will always be something which sticks.
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Calumny crosses oceans, scales mountains, and traverses deserts with greater ease than the Scythian Abaris, and, like him, rides upon a poisoned arrow.
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Calumny is a vice of curious constitution; trying to kill it keeps it alive; leave it to itself and it will die a natural death.
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Close thine ear against him that opens his mouth against another. - If thou receive not his words, they fly back and wound him. - If thou receive them, they flee forward and wound thee.
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Cutting honest throats by whispers.
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False praise can please, and calumny affright, none but the vicious and the hypocrite.
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He that lends an easy and credulous ear to calumny, is either a man of very ill morals, or he has no more sense and understanding than a child.
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I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me. - It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
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I never listen to calumnies; because, if they are untrue, I run the risk of being deceived; and if they are true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.
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Neglected calumny soon expires; show that you are hurt, and you give it the appearance of truth.
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No might nor greatness in mortality can censure escape; back wounding calumny the whitest virtue strikes: What king so strong, can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue?
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Opposition and calumny are often the brightest tribute that vice and folly can pay to virtue and wisdom.
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The calumniator inflicts wrong by slandering the absent; and he who gives credit to the calumny before he knows it is true, is equally guilty. - The person traduced is doubly injured; by him who propagates, and by him who credits the slander.
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The upright man, if he suffer calumny to move him, fears the tongue of man more than the eye of God.
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There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage.
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To persevere in one's duty and be silent, is the best answer to calumny.
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To persevere in one's duty and to be silent is the best answer to calumny.
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To persevere in one's duty, and be silent, is the best answer to calumny.
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