Censure Quotes - Page 3

• The censure of frequent and long parentheses has led writers into the preposterous expedient of leaving out the marks by which they are indicated. It is no cure to a lame man to take away his crutches.

  Richard Whately

  Men, Long, Leaving

  Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.213

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• Si escapas a la censura de los demás, no esperes escapar a la tuya.

  Henry Home, Lord Kames

  Should, Ifs, Conscience

  Henry HOME (Lord Kames.) (1775). “Introduction to the art of thinking. Third edition. Enlarged with additional maxims and illustrations. [By Henry Home, Lord Kames.]”, p.3

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• Every age and every nation has certain characteristic vices, which prevail almost universally, which scarcely any person scruples to avow, and which even rigid moralists but faintly censure. Succeeding generations change the fashion of their morals with the fashion of their hats and their coaches; take some other kind of wickedness under their patronage, and wonder at the depravity of their ancestors.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Fashion, Age, Generations

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• Thus men of more enlighten'd genius and more intrepid spirit must compose themselves to the risque of public censure, and the contempt of their jealous contemporaries, in order to lead ignorant and prejudic'd minds into more happy and successful methods.

  Jon Jones

  Jealous, Learning, Successful

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• If there should chance to be any mathematicians who, ignorant in mathematics yet pretending to skill in that science, should dare, upon the authority of some passage of Scripture wrested to their purpose, to condemn and censure my hypothesis, I value them not, and scorn their inconsiderate judgement.
  De Revolutionibus Coelestibus

  Nicolás Copérnico

  Skills, Judgement, Ignorant

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• I have never worked for fame or praise, and shall not feel their loss as I otherwise would. I have never for a moment lost sight of the humble life I was born to, its small environments, and the consequently little right I had to expect much of myself, and shall have the less to censure, or upbraid myself with for the failures I must see myself make.

  Clara Barton

  Failure, Humble, Humility

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• Though a censure lies against those who are poor and proud, yet is Pride sooner to be forgiven in a poor person than in a rich one; since in the latter it is insult and arrogance; in the former, it may be a defense against temptations to dishonesty; and, if manifested on proper occasions, may indicate a natural bravery of mind, which the frowns of fortune cannot depress.

  Samuel Richardson

  Depressing, Lying, Pride

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• That said, your values will not always be the object of public admiration. In fact, the more you live by your beliefs, the more you will endure the censure of the world.

  Mitt Romney

  World, Facts, Belief

  "Mitt Romney Just Gave The Biggest Speech Of The 2012 Campaign". Mitt Romney's commencement address at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, www.businessinsider.com. May 12, 2012.

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• There are but three ways for a man to revenge himself of the censure of the world,--to despise it, to return the like, or to endeavor 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.

  Jonathan Swift

  Revenge, Men, Practice

  Jonathan Swift (1861). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Cop'ous Notes and Additions”, p.610

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• La desconfianza puede frenar la resolución y obstaculizar el rendimiento, pero compensa sus vergüenzas con ventajas más importantes; concilia al orgulloso y ablanda al severo; aleja la envidia de la excelencia y la censura del error.

  Samuel Johnson

  Aborto, Envidia, Excelencia

  Samuel Johnson, Hester Lynch Piozzi, James Boswell (1804). "Las bellezas de Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: consisting of maxims and observations, moral, critical, and miscellaneous: to which are now added biographical anecdotes of the doctor, selected from the works of Mrs. Piozzi;--his Life, recently published by Mr. Boswell, and other authentic testimonies; also his will, and the sermon he wrote for the late Doctor Dodd", p.174

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• Una grandeza de alma sólida y sustancial desprecia las censuras y los aplausos de la multitud.

  Joseph Addison

  Greatness, Soul, Looks

  Joseph Addison (1721). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq”, p.256

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• The praise of the envious is far less creditable than their censure; they praise only that which they can surpass, but that which surpasses them they censure.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Envy, Praise, Envious

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.246

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• Un egoísta siempre hablará de sí mismo, ya sea para alabarse o para censurarse, pero un hombre modesto siempre evita convertirse en el tema de su conversación.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Hombres, Hablar, Alabar

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• Porque la guerra para el hombre, como el parto para la mujer, es simplificadora en sus emociones y actividades. Todos los problemas reales de la vida pueden dejarse de lado mientras se hace una cosa y se necesita poco pensamiento para hacerla. ... Sus odios pueden expresarse sin censura, puede dar rienda suelta a sus emociones, puede comportarse tan dramática y heroicamente como quiera, y nadie se ríe de él. Es casi imposible que un hombre se comporte heroicamente en los tranquilos y ordinarios tiempos de paz. Pero en la guerra se le permite cualquier cosa, se le alaba y aplaude y se le hace mucho caso, como se excusa y se permite a las mujeres en el embarazo.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Correr, Real, Guerra

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• It has been shrewdly said, that when, men abuse us we should suspect ourselves, and when they praise us, them. It is a rare instance of virtue to despise which censure which we do not deserve; and still more rare to despise praise which we do.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Abuse, Praise

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.125

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• By right, as the word is employed in this subject, has always been understood discretion, that is, a full and complete power of either doing a thing or omitting it, without the person's becoming liable to animadversion or censure from another, that is, in other words, without his incurring any degree of turpitude or guilt. Now in this sense I affirm that man has no rights, no discretionary power whatever.

  William Godwin

  Men, Rights, Guilt

  William Godwin (1793). “An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice: And Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness”, p.111

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• In living literature no person is a competent judge but of works written in his own language. I have expressed my opinion concerning a number of English writers; it is very possible that I may be mistaken, that my admiration and my censure may be equally misplaced, and that my conclusions may appear impertinent and ridiculous on the other side of the Channel.

  François-René de Chateaubriand

  Numbers, Judging, May

  "Sketches of English Literature: With Considerations on the Spirit of the Times, Men, and Revolutions". Book by François-René de Chateaubriand, translated by Henry Colburn, Volume II, p.36, 1836.

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• Man's desire for the approval of his fellows is so strong, his dread of their censure so violent, that he himself has brought his enemy (conscience) within his gates; and it keeps watch over him, vigilant always in the interests of its master to crush any half-formed desire to break away from the herd.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Aplastar, Fuerte, Hombres

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• The quicker, the louder, the applause with which another tries to gain you over to his purpose - the bitterer his censure if he miss his aim.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Missing, Trying, Purpose

  "Aforismos sobre el hombre. Traducido del manuscrito original del reverendo John Caspar Lavater, ciudadano de Zuric ; [Una línea de Juvenal]" por Johann Kaspar Lavater, 1790.

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• No author, I think, is deserving of much censure for vanity if, taking down one of his ten-year-old books, he exclaims: "Great heavens, did I write as well as that then?" for the implication always is that one does not write any longer so well and few are so envious as to censure the complacencies of an extinct volcano.

  Ford Madox Ford

  Libro, Escritura, Pensamiento

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• Cada época podría quizás producir uno o dos genios, si no estuvieran hundidos bajo la censura y el oprobio de pedantes plomizos, serviles e imitadores.

  Jonathan Swift

  Two, Age, Pedants

  Jonathan Swift (1761). “Works”, p.359

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• In this world, [of Flash and Filigree] nothing is true, and censure or outrage is simply irrelevant.

  William S. Burroughs

  World, Outrage, Flash

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• There are two tendencies in all our war talk.... The first is to boast, if not of ourselves and our deeds, at least of our army, our corps, our regiments. The other is to find fault with, to criticize, to censure, to condemn others. If there is a victory, we gained it and must have the credit of it. If there is a failure, it was the fault of the other fellow,--he must be blamed for it.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  War, Army, Two

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• Get a single, solitary thought in your mind, and that thought - the precious love of Jesus. Go and live it out, and come what may, you will be respected though abused. They may say you are an enthusiast, a fanatic, a fool, but those names from the world are titles of praise and glory. The world does not take the trouble to nickname a man unless he is worth it. It will not give you any censure unless it trembles at you.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesús, Hombres, Nombres

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• ¿Por qué debemos censurar a Otelo cuando el Amante del Criterio dice: "No tendrás otros dioses delante de mí"?

  Emily Dickinson

  Atheism, Lovers, Criteria

  Emily Dickinson (2012). “Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.369, Courier Corporation

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