Quotes with rigor

  • Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our mothers' incredible strength. We fear both. If they are not strong, who will protect us? If they are not imperfect, how can we equal them?
  • Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have all of my conduct distinguished by it.

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  • Bernard Mandeville If courtesans and strumpets were to be prosecuted with as much rigor as some silly people would have it, what locks or bars would be sufficient to preserve the honor of our wives and daughters?
    Bernard Mandeville
    British writer and artist (1670 - 1733)
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  • Anna Quindlen Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our mothers' incredible strength. We fear both. If they are not strong, who will protect us? If they are not imperfect, how can we equal them?
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • George Washington Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have all of my conduct distinguished by it.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • Marquis de Custine The circumstances of human society are too complicated to be submitted to the rigor of mathematical calculation.
    Marquis de Custine
    French aristocrat and writer
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  • William Blake You smile with pomp and rigor, you talk of benevolence and virtue; I act with benevolence and virtue and get murdered time after time.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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