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«No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.»
«Monica: Is it me? Is it like I have a beacon that only dogs and men with severe emotional problems can hear?»
«Part of the beauty and much of the moral seriousness of sport derives from the severe justice of strenuous play in a circumscribed universe of rules that protect the integrity of competition. Records are worth recording, and worth striving to surpass, because they serve as benchmarks of excellence achieved under the pressure of competition.»
Author: George F. Will
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circumscribed, circumscribes, derives, moral excellence, pressure, recording, records, seriousness, severe, strenuous| Occasions:
Olympic
«Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.»
Author: John Keats
(Poet)
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Praise
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abstract, critic, effect, momentary, on his own, severe
«If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared»
«Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.»
Author: Calvin Coolidge
(President)
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comparatively, lingers, severe, short temper, tempering
«I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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bitterness, criticism, criticisms, effective, expressed, provoke, provokes, severe, severer, sorrier, sorriest, sorry, with bitterness
«Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
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jesting, severe
«One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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intellectually, novels, relaxation, severe, unemployed
«Remember that pain has this most excellent quality. If prolonged it cannot be severe, and if severe it cannot be prolonged.»
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