“ 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- Copy
- 456
“ Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same. ”
- Pearl Buck- Copy
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“ The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend. ”
- Francis Bacon- Copy
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“ Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee. ”
- The Bible- Copy
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“ A reproof entereth more into a woman of sense than an hundred compliments into a fool. ”
- Frank Gelett Burgess- Copy
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“ Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same — and most mothers kiss and scold together. ”
- Pearl S. Buck- Copy
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“ I felt shame and failure, for all the compromises I'd made in my life. I could feel his silent disapproval of me. It was an oppressive thing. ”
- Joyce Maynard- Copy
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“ The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful — because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact. ”
- Aldous Huxley- Copy
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“ It is the action of an uninstructed person to reproach others for his own misfortune; of one entering instruction, to reproach himself; and one perfectly instructed, to reproach neither others nor himself. ”
- Epictetus- Copy
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“ He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach. ”
- Demosthenes- Copy
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“ It is partly to avoid consciousness of greed that we prefer to associate with those who are at least as greedy as we ourselves. Those who consume much less are a reproach. ”
- Charles Horton Cooley- Copy
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“ There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ A great philosophy is not a philosophy without reproach; it is philosophy without fear. ”
- Charles Peguy- Copy
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“ Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach, and even this negative recompense has been yet granted to very few. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won. ”
- Louisa May Alcott- Copy
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“ To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach. ”
- Demosthenes- Copy
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“ We reproach people for talking about themselves; but it is the subject they treat best. ”
- Anatole France- Copy
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“ There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us. ”
- Don Marquis- Copy
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