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His very chains helped to deceive him about the harshness of his service. -- Bruno Bauer
Harshness is conquered by gentleness, hatred by love, lethargy by zeal and darkness by light. -- Mahatma Gandhi
It is impossible to treat a child too well. Children are spoiled by being ignored too much or by harshness, not by kindness. -- Sloan Wilson
To friends and eke to foes true kindness show; No kindly heart unkindly deeds will do; Harshness will alienate a bosom friend. And kindness reconcile a deadly foe. -- Omar Khayyam
Harshness to me is giving somebody false hopes and not following through. That's harsh. Telling some guy or some girl who've got zero talent that they have zero talent actually is a kindness. -- Simon Cowell
Harshness is for the good of a boy, soft-heartedness will ruin him. -- Ihara Saikaku
Harshness towards individuals who flout the laws and commands of the state is for the public good; no greater crime against the public interest is possible than to show leniency to those who violate it. -- Cardinal Richelieu
Harshness vanished. A sudden softness has replaced the meadows' wintry grey. Little rivulets of water changed their singing accents. Tendernesses, hesitantly, reach toward the earth from space, and country lanes are showing these unexpected subtle risings that find expression in the empty trees. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness. -- Wyndham Lewis
Americans, it seems to me, tend to protect their children from the harshness of life, in their interest. -- Chinua Achebe
I am a woman, and even if I could proceed with harshness and rigidity, it would disgust me nonetheless. -- Franz Grillparzer
I was affected by the harshness of government, the reality of 16-hour days, and the pressures of modern communications. -- David Blunkett
Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile. -- Mahmoud Darwish
Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds. -- Plato
Love is a feeling that comes into our hearts of our own choice for neither force nor harshness can limit the heart's freedom. -- Pietro Metastasio
The painful thing is that when we buy into disapproval,we are practicing disapproval. When we buy into harshness,we are practicing harshness. -- Pema Chodron
He that by harshness of nature rules his family with an iron hand is as truly a tyrant as he who misgoverns a nation. -- Seneca the Younger
The harshness and choice of words can cut deeply. Republicans need to show compassion and to be reasonable when talking to any ethnic group. -- Henry Bonilla
Quelque rigueur qui loge en votre coeur, Amour s'en peut un jour rendre vainqueur. That little harshness which resides in your heart, Love will vanquish someday. -- Louise Labe
Nietzsche was personally more philosophical than his philosophy. His talk about power, harshness, and superb immorality was the hobby of a harmless young scholar and constitutional invalid. -- George Santayana
Arrogance is in everything I do. It is in my gestures, the harshness of my voice, in the glow of my gaze, in my sinewy, tormented face. -- Coco Chanel
I think Oprah's [winfrey] learned from me that it's OK to be harsh on people because in one's harshness you can see transformation happen right before your very eyes. -- Suze Orman
Americans, it seems to me, tend to protect their children from the harshness of life, in their interest. That's not the way my people rear their children. They let them experience the world as it is. -- Chinua Achebe
Along the way, I've had different advice from different music producers. I've been told to tone it down, that the quiet parts of my voice are appealing and there's harshness to the loud part of my voice. -- Patty Griffin
Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is harshness; it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot really hear it. -- Timothy Keller
What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs? -- George Eliot
The worst time was 1983. Love and life and everything went wrong. I reached absolute rock bottom. I saw the Minotaur at the bottom of the abyss. I learnt of the harshness of the world and its impartiality to human failure. -- Ben Okri
The problem is not the harshness of Fate, for anything we want strongly enough we get. The trouble is rather that when we have it we grow sick of it, and then we should never blame Fate, only our own desire. -- Cesare Pavese
Every one must understand that, whatever be the evil of slavery, it is not increased by its diffusion. Every one familiar with it knows that it is in proportion to its sparseness that it becomes less objectionable. Wherever there is an immediate connexion between the master and slave, whatever there is of harshness in the system is diminished. -- Jefferson Davis
Be an example to your men, in your duty and in private life. Never spare yourself, and let the troops see that you don'tin your endurance of fatigue and privation. always be tactful and well-mannered and teach your subordinates to do the same. Avoid excessive sharpness or harshness of voice, which usually indicates the man who has shortcomings of his own to hide. -- Erwin Rommel
Arrogance is a mixture of impertinence, disobedience, indiscipline, rudeness, harshness, and a self-assertive nature. -- Sivananda
Intolerance, discourtesy and harshness..... are taboo in all good society and are surely contrary to the spirit of democracy. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I love a gay and sociable wisdom, and shun harshness and austerity in behaviour, holding every surly countenance suspect. -- Michel de Montaigne
Women are delicate creatures. Fragile. Gentle. Made by God to be sheltered from the harshness of this world..Morgan MacDonnell" -- Teresa Medeiros
Women are delicate creatures. Fragile. Gentle. Made by God to be sheltered from the harshness of this world.. Morgan MacDonnell -- Teresa Medeiros
The modern clercs have created in so-called cultivated society a positive romanticism of harshness. The have also created a romanticism of contempt. -- Julien Benda
Leadership means firmness, not harshness or bullying; understanding, not weakness; justice, not irresponsible freedom; humaneness, not intolerance; generosity, not selfishness; pride, not egotism. -- Omar N. Bradley
It is pride which fills the world with so much harshness and severity. We are rigorous to offenses as if we had never offended. -- Hugh Blair
She could not ignore life. She had to live it and it was too brutal, too hostile, for her even to try to gloss over its harshness with a smile -- Margaret Mitchell
How many women are there who because of their husbands' harshness spend their weary lives in the bond of marriage in greater suffering than if they were slaves among the Saracens? -- Christine de Pizan
How many women are there ... who because of their husbands' harshness spend their weary lives in the bond of marriage in greater suffering than if they were slaves among the Saracens? -- Christine de Pizan
Without peace there can be no prosperity for any people, rich or poor. And yet, there can be no peace without erasing the harshness of the growing contrast between the rich and the poor. -- Indira Gandhi

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