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Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
The censure of those who are opposed to us, is the highest commendation that can be given us.
He that well and rightly considereth his own works will find little cause to judge hardly of another.
There are but three ways for a man to revenge himself for the censure of the world; to despise it; to return the like; or to live so as to avoid it. The first of these is usually pretended; the last is almost impossible; the universal practice is for the second.
Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all.
The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.
It is folly for an eminent person to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected by it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age, have passed through this fiery persecution. There is no defence against reproach but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph.
Censure pardons the ravens, but rebukes the doves.
Few persons have sufficient wisdom to prefer censure, which is useful , to praise which deceives them.
Horace appears in good humor while her censures, and therefore his censure has the more weight as supposed to proceed from judgment and not from passion.
If any one speak ill of thee, consider whether he hath truth on his side; and if so, reform thyself, that his censures may not affect thee.
The villain’s censure is extorted praise.
It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause, for this may be done by one great or wise action in an age; but to escape censure a man must pass his whole life without saying or doing one ill or foolish thing.
He is always the severest censor on the merits of others who has the least worth of his own.
It is impossible to indulge in habitual severity of opinion upon our fellow men without injuring the tenderness and delicacy of our own feelings.
Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the invidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood.
We hand folks over to God’s mercy, and show none ourselves.
The most censorious are generally the least judicious, or deserving, who, having nothing to recommend them selves, will be finding fault with others. No man envies the merit of another who has enough of his own.
Our censure of our fellow men, which we are prone to think a proof of our superior wisdom, is too often only the evidence of the conceit that would magnify self, or of the malignity or envy that would detract from others.
Swift
The censure of those who are opposed to us, is the highest commendation that can be given us.
St. Evermond.
He that well and rightly considereth his own works will find little cause to judge hardly of another.
There are but three ways for a man to revenge himself for the censure of the world; to despise it; to return the like; or to live so as to avoid it. The first of these is usually pretended; the last is almost impossible; the universal practice is for the second.
Swift.
Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all.
Shakespeare.
The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.
Demosthenes.
It is folly for an eminent person to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected by it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age, have passed through this fiery persecution. There is no defence against reproach but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph.
Addison.
Censure pardons the ravens, but rebukes the doves.
Juvenal.
Few persons have sufficient wisdom to prefer censure, which is useful , to praise which deceives them.
Rochefoucauld.
Horace appears in good humor while her censures, and therefore his censure has the more weight as supposed to proceed from judgment and not from passion.
Young.
If any one speak ill of thee, consider whether he hath truth on his side; and if so, reform thyself, that his censures may not affect thee.
Epictetus.
The villain’s censure is extorted praise.
Pope.
It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause, for this may be done by one great or wise action in an age; but to escape censure a man must pass his whole life without saying or doing one ill or foolish thing.
Hume.
He is always the severest censor on the merits of others who has the least worth of his own.
E.L. Magoon.
It is impossible to indulge in habitual severity of opinion upon our fellow men without injuring the tenderness and delicacy of our own feelings.
H.W. Beecher.
Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the invidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood.
Tryon Edwards.
We hand folks over to God’s mercy, and show none ourselves.
George Eliot.
The most censorious are generally the least judicious, or deserving, who, having nothing to recommend them selves, will be finding fault with others. No man envies the merit of another who has enough of his own.
Rule of life.
Our censure of our fellow men, which we are prone to think a proof of our superior wisdom, is too often only the evidence of the conceit that would magnify self, or of the malignity or envy that would detract from others.
Tryon Edwards.
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