Censure Quotes
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Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
Jonathan Swift -
The silence of a man who loves to praise is a censure sufficiently severe.
Charlotte Lennox
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When Actions are a Censure upon themselves, the Reciter will always be consider'd as a Satirist.
Charlotte Lennox -
Religion does not censure or exclude Unnumbered pleasures, harmlessly pursued.
William Cowper -
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 -
Jesus Christ has undertaken by His redemption to put in me a heart so pure that God can see nothing to censure.
Oswald Chambers -
Man is not permitted without censure to follow his own thoughts in the search of truth, when they lead him ever so little out of the common road.
John Locke Nazareth -
They have a right to censure that have a heart to help.
William Penn
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Slander, in the strict meaning of the term, comes under the head of lying; but it is a kind of lying which, like its antithesis flattery, ought to be set apart for special censure.
Washington Gladden -
Speak not in high commendation of any man to his face, nor censure any man behind his back; but if thou knowest anything good of him, tell it unto others; if anything ill, tell it privately and prudently to himself.
William Burkitt -
I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure.
William Gilmore Simms -
We must defend freedom of expression and if I had to chose, I prefer the excess of caricature over the excess of censure.
Nicolas Sarkozy -
The censure of those who are opposed to us, is the highest commendation that can be given us.
Charles de Saint-Évremond