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A man's first
care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, and
his next to escape the censures of the world.
-- Joseph Addison
1672-1719, British Essayist,
Poet, Statesman
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.
-- Joseph Addison
1672-1719, British Essayist,
Poet, Statesman
The readiest
and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct
ourselves.
-- Demosthenes
c.383-322 BC, Greek Orator
I find the
pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more
acute than the pleasure of much praise.
-- Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of
the USA
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Few persons
have sufficient wisdom to prefer censure, which is useful,
to praise which deceives them.
-- Francois De La
Rochefoucauld
1613-1680, French Classical
Writer
The censure of
those who are opposed to us, is the highest commendation
that can be given us.
-- Seigneur De Saint-Evremond
1610-1703, French Writer, Wit
He who would
acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The
dread of censure is the death of genius.
-- William Gilmore Simms
1806-1870, American Author
Censure is the
tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
-- Jonathan Swift
1667-1745, Anglo-Irish
Satirist
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