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«At a turbulent public meeting once I lost my temper and said some harsh and sarcastic things. The proposal I was supporting was promptly defeated. My father who was there, said nothing, but that night, on my pillow I found a marked passage from Aristotle: Anybody can become angry--that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way -- that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.»
«Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers, which are always repulsed by the anvil»
«Have you noticed in your past experience that your kind interpretations were almost always truer than you harsh one?»
«Beloved, all that is harsh and difficult I want for myself, and all that is gentle and sweet for thee»
Author: St. John of the Cross | About: Love | Keywords: beloved, gentle, harsh, harsher
«A pleasant illusion is better than a harsh reality»
«Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction.»
«A round egg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harsh according to how you speak them»
Author: Japanese Proverb | Keywords: egg, harsh, square
«Every ruler is harsh whose laws is new.»
Author: Aeschylus (Dramatist, Playwright) | Keywords: harsh, ruler
«Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness -a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.»
«Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.»