Censure Quotes
These are some of the best 'Censure' quotations and sayings.
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Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove.
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Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
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Few persons have sufficient wisdom to prefer censure, which is useful, to praise which deceives them.
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Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all.
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He that well and rightly considereth his own works will find little cause to judge hardly of another.
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Horace appears in good humor while he censures, and therefore his censure has the more weight, as supposed to proceed from judgment and not from passion.
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If any one speak ill of thee, consider whether he hath truth on his side; and if so, reform thyself, that his censures may not affect thee.
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It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.
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It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause; for this may be done by one great or wise action in an age. But to escape censure a man must pass his whole life without saying or doing one ill or foolish thing.
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It is impossible to indulge in habitual severity of opinion upon our fellow-men without injuring the tenderness and delicacy of our own feelings.
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Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. - It has all the invidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood.
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Our censure of our fellowmen, which we are prone to think a proof of our superior wisdom, is too often only the evidence of the conceit that would magnify self, or of the malignity or envy that would detract from others.
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The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.
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The villain's censure is extorted praise.
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There are but three ways for a man to revenge himself for the censure of the world: to despise it; to return the like; or to live so as to avoid it. - The first of these is usually pretended; the last is almost impossible; the universal practice is for the second.
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We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.
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