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The detractor may, and often does, pull down others, but by so doing he never, as he seems to suppose, elevates himself to their position. The most he can do is, maliciously to tear from them the blessings which he cannot enjoy himself.
To be traduced by ignorant tongues, is the rough brake that virtue must go through.
Shakespeare.
Those who propagate evil reports frequently invent them; and it is no breach of charity to suppose this to be always the case, because no man who spreads detraction would have scrupled to produce it, as he who should diffuse poison in a book would scare be acquitted of a malicious design, though he should allege that he received it of another who is doing the same elsewhere.
Adventurer.
To make beads of the faults of others, and tell them over every day, is infernal.
If you want to know how devils feel, you do know if you are such an one.
H.W. Beecher.
Happy are they that hear their detractions, and can put them to mending.
Shakespeare.
In some dispositions there is such an envious kind of pride that they cannot endure that any but themselves should be set forth for excellent; so that when they hear one justly praised, they will wither seek to dismount his virtues, or, if they be like a clear light, they will stab him with a but of detration.
Feltham.
Much depends upon a man’s courage when he is slandered and traduced. Weak men are crushed by detraction; but the brave hold on and succeed.
He whose first emotion, on the view of an excellent work, is to undervalue or depreciate it, will never have one of his own to show.
Aikin.
Base natures joy to see hard hap happen to them they deem happy.
Sir P.Sidney.
Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neighbor, will feel pleasure in the reverse; and those who despair to rise to distinction by their virtues are happy I fothers can be depressed to a level with themselves.
J.Barker.
The man that makes a character, makes foes.
Young.
If we considered detraction to be bred of envy, and nested only in deficient minds, we should find that the applauding of virtue would win us far more honor than seeking to disparage it. That would show we loved what we commended, while this tells the world we grudge at what we want ourselves.
Feltham.
There is no readier way for a man to bring his own worth into question, than be endeavoring to detract from the worth of other men.
Tillotson.
Unjustifiable detraction always proves the weakness as well as meanness of the one who employs it. To be constantly carping at, and exaggerating petty blemishes in the characters of others, putting an unfavorable construction on their language, or “damning with faint praise” their deeds, betrays, on the part of the detractor, a conscious inability to maintain reputable standing on legitimate and honorable ground.
E.L. Magoon.
To be traduced by ignorant tongues, is the rough brake that virtue must go through.
Shakespeare.
Those who propagate evil reports frequently invent them; and it is no breach of charity to suppose this to be always the case, because no man who spreads detraction would have scrupled to produce it, as he who should diffuse poison in a book would scare be acquitted of a malicious design, though he should allege that he received it of another who is doing the same elsewhere.
Adventurer.
To make beads of the faults of others, and tell them over every day, is infernal.
If you want to know how devils feel, you do know if you are such an one.
H.W. Beecher.
Happy are they that hear their detractions, and can put them to mending.
Shakespeare.
In some dispositions there is such an envious kind of pride that they cannot endure that any but themselves should be set forth for excellent; so that when they hear one justly praised, they will wither seek to dismount his virtues, or, if they be like a clear light, they will stab him with a but of detration.
Feltham.
Much depends upon a man’s courage when he is slandered and traduced. Weak men are crushed by detraction; but the brave hold on and succeed.
He whose first emotion, on the view of an excellent work, is to undervalue or depreciate it, will never have one of his own to show.
Aikin.
Base natures joy to see hard hap happen to them they deem happy.
Sir P.Sidney.
Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neighbor, will feel pleasure in the reverse; and those who despair to rise to distinction by their virtues are happy I fothers can be depressed to a level with themselves.
J.Barker.
The man that makes a character, makes foes.
Young.
If we considered detraction to be bred of envy, and nested only in deficient minds, we should find that the applauding of virtue would win us far more honor than seeking to disparage it. That would show we loved what we commended, while this tells the world we grudge at what we want ourselves.
Feltham.
There is no readier way for a man to bring his own worth into question, than be endeavoring to detract from the worth of other men.
Tillotson.
Unjustifiable detraction always proves the weakness as well as meanness of the one who employs it. To be constantly carping at, and exaggerating petty blemishes in the characters of others, putting an unfavorable construction on their language, or “damning with faint praise” their deeds, betrays, on the part of the detractor, a conscious inability to maintain reputable standing on legitimate and honorable ground.
E.L. Magoon.
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