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• Welcome, Disappointment! Thy hand is cold and hard, but it is the hand of a friend. Thy voice is stern and harsh, but it is the voice of a friend. Oh, there is something sublime in calm endurance, something sublime in the resolute, fixed purpose of suffering without complaining, which makes disappointment oftentimes better than success!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Disappointment, Hands, Voice

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1851). “The prose works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.155

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• I will be harsh and stern against the aggressor, but I will be a pillar of strength for the weak.I will not calm down until I will put one cheek of a tyrant on the ground and the other under my feet, and for the poor and weak, I will put my cheek on the ground.

  Umar

  Tyrants, Feet, Pillars

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• For those who practise tyranny and deprive others of their rights, I will be harsh and stern, but for those who follow the law, I will be most soft and tender.

  Umar

  Rights, Law, Tyranny

  "Al Farooq, Umar" by Muhammad Husayn Haykal, ch. 5, p. 123, 1944.

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• The act of self-denial seems to confer on us the right to be harsh and merciless toward others. The impression somehow prevails that the true believer, particularly the religious individual, is a humble person. The truth is that the surrendering and humbling of the self breed pride and arrogance. The true believer is apt to see himself as one of the chosen, the salt of the earth, a prince disguised in meekness, who is destined to inherit this earth and the kingdom of heaven, too. He who is not of his faith is evil; he who will not listen shall perish.

  Eric Hoffer

  Religious, Humility, Humble

  ERIC HOFFER (1963). “THE TRUE BELIEVER”

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• Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forced fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year.

  John Milton

  Years, Ivy, Rude

  'Lycidas' (1638) l. 1

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• After forty years of close acquaintance with it, I've found that work is kind to its friends and harsh to its enemies. It pays the fellow who dislikes it his exact wages, and they're generally pretty small; but it gives the man who shines up to it all the money he wants and throws in a heap of fun and satisfaction for good measure.

  George Horace Lorimer

  Fun, Work, Men

  George Horace Lorimer (2006). “Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-made Merchant to His Son”, p.10, Cosimo, Inc.

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• And what's wrong with dimming the harsh reality of life a little, anyway? In essence, being alive is a bloody long and hard walk to death. Why not make it as pleasant along the way as you can?

  Lucinda Riley

  Reality, Essence, Long

  Lucinda Riley (2013). “The Lavender Garden: A Novel”, p.167, Simon and Schuster

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• Jesus is the best clue we have as to what God is like and He is consistently gracious and merciful, especially to those who are failures. He is harsh to uptight, judgmental people, but merciful and gracious to the failures. He seems to draw out the smallest kernel of faith in each person that He's with. So, I presume that that's the way God is going to judge humanity.

  Philip Yancey

  Jesus, People, Judging

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• Gandhi has sound economic and cultural reasons for encouraging the revival of cottage industries, but he does not counsel a fanatical repudiation of all modern progress. Machinery, trains, automobiles, the telegraph have played important parts in his own colossal life! Fifty years of public service, in prison and out, wrestling daily with practical details and harsh realities in the political world, have only increased his balance, open-mindedness, sanity, and humorous appreciation of the quaint human spectacle.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Appreciation, Humorous, Wrestling

  "Autobiography of a Yogi". Book by Autobiography of a Yogi, Ch. 44 - With Mahatma Gandhi At Wardha, 1946.

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• God is a lion that comes in the night. God is a hawk gliding among the stars-- If all the stars and the earth, and the living flesh of the night that flows in between them, and whatever is beyond them Were that one bird. He has a bloody beak and harsh talons, he pounces and tears.

  Robinson Jeffers

  God, Stars, Night

  Robinson Jeffers, Tim Hunt (1988). “The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: 1938-1962”, p.292, Stanford University Press

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• At a certain point, you have to stop being precious with your material and be cruel and harsh and judgmental.

  Marshall Curry

  Judgmental

  "The Best Documentary Filmmaking Advice from Full Frame Documentary Film Festival". Interview with Sam Adams, www.indiewire.com. April 24, 2015.

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• Widow" is a harsh and hurtful word. It comes from the Sanskrit and it means "empty." I have been empty too long.

  Lynn Caine

  Mean, Long, Hurtful

  Lynn Caine (1974). “Widow”

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• Vermilion alone could render the brilliant red of the tiles on the opposite slope. The orange of the soil, the harsh crude colors of the walls and greenery, the ultramarine and cobalt of the sky achieved an extreme harmony that was sensually and musically ordered.

  Maurice de Vlaminck

  Wall, Orange, Color

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• I guess they have had 16 years when they haven't even been close in an Ashes series but we have found some sections of the crowd to be scathing and harsh. That has not been overly enjoyable. We have seen a pretty ugly side in some supporters.

  Adam Gilchrist

  Years, Ashes, Crowds

  "Trent Bridge to tackle football-style rowdyism" by Paul Weaver, www.theguardian.com. August 24, 2005.

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• My caddy today was a Scot and he told me that he was cheering for Australia, which I thought was a bit harsh. But generally I've been amazed at how many people have come up to me here in Scotland and said: 'I've never really watched cricket before, but I was hooked all summer.' It's great.

  Andrew Strauss

  Summer, Cheer, Scotland

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• I am really excited about Battle of the Stars, the line-up looks fantastic. I've no doubt that despite their fame my hand holding will still be in high demand as they take on the judges often harsh words. Lets just hope I'm not having to mop up too many tears!

  Kate Thornton

  Stars, Hands, Judging

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• People can pass thirty nights in dancing and no one complains about it, but if they watch through a single Christmas night they cough and claim their stomach is upset the next morning. Does anyone fail to see that the world is an unjust judge, gracious and well disposed to its own children but harsh and rigorous towards the children of God?

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Morning, Children, Night

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• Europe has been at peace since 1945. But it is a restless peace thats shadowed by the threat of violence. Europe is partitioned. An unnatural line runs through the heart of a very great and a very proud nation [Germany]. History warns us that until this harsh division has been resolved, peace in Europe will never be secure. We must turn to one of the great unfinished tasks of our generationand that unfinished task is making Europe whole again.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Running, Peace, Heart

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• On a sudden open fly With impetuous recoil and jarring sound Th' infernal doors, and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder.

  John Milton

  Doors, Sound, Thunder

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 2, l. 879

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• Old age is
  a flight of small
  cheeping birds
  skimming
  bare trees
  above a snow glaze.
  Gaining and failing
  they are buffeted
  by a dark wind -
  But what?
  On harsh weedstalks
  the flock has rested -
  the snow
  is covered
  with broken
  seed husks
  and the wind tempered
  with a shrill
  piping of plenty.

  William Carlos Williams

  Dark, Wind, Snow

  "To Awaken an Old Lady". The Dial, August 1920.

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• Nietzsche ... combines, in effect, Christ's harsh sayings: 'let the dead bury their dead' and 'narrow is the way which leadeth unto life'.

  John Carroll

  Way, Christ, Effects

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• Love is harsh, and it consumes. And more than anything, it demands sacrifice.

  Tim Lebbon

  Sacrifice, Love Is, Demand

  Tim Lebbon (2006). “Unnatural Selection”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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• The individual, by means of the discipline imposed on him by sport, not only plays and finds relaxation from the various compulsions to which he is subjected, but without knowing it trains himself for new compulsions. ... Training in sports makes of the individual an efficient piece of apparatus which is henceforth unacquainted with anything but the harsh joys of exploiting his body and winning.

  Jacques Ellul

  Sports, Mean, Winning

  "The Technological Society" by Jacques Ellul, translated by John Wilkinson, (p. 383), 1964.

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• I don't think I made a conscious decision as a career choice. From my school days I had decided, persuaded by my parents, to prepare myself for the law. Then the Japanese occupation came and we went through three and a half years of what I would call the university of life, it was hard, it was harsh.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  School, Thinking, Careers

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• Every age and degree of understanding should have its proper measure of discipline. With regard to boys and adolescents, therefore, or those who cannot understand the seriousness of the penalty of excommunication, whenever such as these are delinquent let them be subjected to severe fasts or brought to terms by harsh beatings, that they may be cured.

  Benedict of Nursia

  Boys, Should Have, Discipline

  Benedict Of Nursia (2015). “St. Benedict’s Rule for Monasteries”, p.30, Benedict Of Nursia

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