Severity Quotes
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Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!
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Crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than the severity of punishment
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Timing is unpredictable and the severity is uncertain.
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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
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No severity of punishment deters when detection is uncertain, as it always must be.
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I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity?
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We suspect it might be extended because of the severity of the storm, but we don't know that.
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Fear accomplishes much in love. The husband of the Middle Ages was loved by his wife for his very severity. The bride of William the Conqueror, having been beaten by him, recognized him by this token for her lord and husband.
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There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.
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The severity of the sentences serves as an ominous reminder of the consequences of misconduct. Executives engage in cost-benefit analysis every day. It's not surprising that they would be more responsive to deterrence.
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A victorious general must know how to employ severity, justness, and mildness by turns, if he would allay sedition or prevent it.
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Nothing comes of severity if there be no leanings towards a change of heart. And if there be natural leanings towards a change of heart, what need for severity?
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In compassionate men, severity is a virtue.
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A great deal may be done by severity, more by love, but most by clear discernment and impartial justice.
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Would you not be happier if you tried to forget her severity, together with the passionate emotions it excited? Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.
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If you wage war, do it energetically and with severity. This is the only way to make it shorter and consequently less inhuman.
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It is better that a judge should lean on the side of compassion than severity.
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. . . gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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Our passions may be compared to certain slaves--the more severity we show them, the better they obey us.
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When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.
