Quotes with severity

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  • Joseph Addison The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Camille Paglia Charisma is the radiance produced by the interaction of male and female elements in a gifted personality. The charismatic woman has a masculine force and severity. The charismatic man has an entrancing female beauty. Both are hot and cold, glowing with presexual self-love.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Terence Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion.
    Terence
    Roman writer of comedies (190 - 159)
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  • Louis Aragon I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style.
    Louis Aragon
    French poet (1897 - 1982)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Ben Bernanke The economic repercussions of a stock market crash depend less on the severity of the crash itself than on the response of economic policymakers, particularly central bankers.
    A Crash Course for Central Bankers, Foreign Policy (September/October 2000)
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Charles De Montesquieu The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
    Charles De Montesquieu
    French philosopher (1689 - 1755)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne True it is that she who escapeth safe and unpolluted from out the school of freedom, giveth more confidence of herself than she who comet sound out of the school of severity and restraint.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • George Eliot When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Alphonse Karr Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others.
    Alphonse Karr
    French writer and editor of Le Figaro (1808 - 1890)
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