Severe Quotes

• Gentle to others, to himself severe.

  Samuel Rogers

  Kindness, Gentle

  Samuel Rogers (1827). “Poems ... A new edition”, p.258

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• Within the human frequency of perception, what you see is what you get. I would classify the bottom of the band as severe unhappiness, depression and alimentation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Perception, Band

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• Information overload will lead to 'future shock syndrome' as an individual will suffer severe physical and mental disturbances.

  Alvin Toffler

  Suffering, Information, Individual

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• There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.

  Arthur Helps

  Beauty, Humility, Grace

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• Severe poverty is getting better by some measures, but it's also becoming ever more scandalous because it is now so easily avoidable.

  Thomas Pogge

  Get Better, Poverty, Becoming

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Forgiveness, Government, Law

  Poor Richard's Almanack, May 1756

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• I was diagnosed with a severe temporal spatial deficit, a learning disability that means I have zero spatial relations skills. It was official: I was a genius trapped in an idiot's body.

  Sloane Crosley

  Zero, Mean, Skills

  Sloane Crosley (2010). “How Did You Get This Number”, p.24, Penguin

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• The severe schools shall never laugh me out of the philosophy of Hermes, that this visible world is but a picture of the invisible, wherein as in a portrait, things are not truly, but in equivocal shapes, and as they counterfeit some real substance in that invisible fabric.

  Thomas Browne

  Philosophy, Real, School

  Sir Thomas Browne (1831). “Miscellaneous Works of Sir Thomas Browne: With Some Account of the Author and His Writings”, p.25

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• No severe or prolonged bodily illness followed this incident of the red-room: it only gave my nerves a shock, of which I feel the reverberation to this day.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Nerves, Red, Rooms

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.20, Penguin

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• Problems associated with the menstrual cycle are now commonplace. The majority of teenagers whom I have seen suffer problems such as PMS, severe cramping, and irregular or heavy cycles. Severe hypothyroidism may cause the menses to stop. Dr. Barnes noted his patients with menstrual problems usually suffered many other telltale symptoms of hypothyroidism. Mine do as well. A large majority of menstrual problems resolve after treatment with dessicated thyroid.

  Mark Starr

  Teenager, Pms, Suffering

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• Poetry, even that of the loftiest, and seemingly, that of the wildest odes, [has] a logic of its own as severe as that of science; and more difficult, because more subtle, more complex, and dependent on more and more fugitive causes. In the truly great poets... there is a reason assignable, not only for every word, but for the position of every word.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Poetry, Odes, Causes

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, James Engell, Walter Jackson Bate (1984). “Biographia Literaria, Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions”, p.9, Princeton University Press

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• Occasionally now I feel a wang that goes in my head - once you've got it you've got it. The [illness] was quite severe, leaving me deeply unhappy and frightened.

  Melvyn Bragg

  Leaving, Unhappy, Mental Illness

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• Even animals have a conscience. Those in the jungle KILL only to eat, not live to kill. This is why we often see packs of predators focusing on just one kill, instead of targeting many. Even animals exercise reason. I have seen a mother lion taking care of a baby antelope, and a mother elephant taking care of a baby lion. The primal need to eat is unavoidable, yet even under severe hunger stretches, the desire to love can sometimes overcome the desire to eat.

  Suzy Kassem

  Mother, Baby, Exercise

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• I have yet to see a serious act of violence that was not provoked by the experience of feeling shamed and humiliated, disrespected and ridiculed, and that did not represent the attempt to prevent or undo this ‘loss of face’—no matter how severe the punishment, even if it includes death.

  James Gilligan

  Loss, Punishment, Feelings

  James Gilligan (1996). “Violence: Our Deadly Epidemic and Its Causes”, Putnam Adult

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• It would be a good contest amongst Christians, one to labour to give no offence, and the other to labour to take none. The best men are severe to themselves, tender over others.

  Richard Sibbes

  Christian, Men, Giving

  "Complete Works of Richard Sibbes".

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• Whoever imposes severe punishment becomes repulsive to the people; while he who awards mild punishment becomes contemptible. But whoever imposes punishment as deserved becomes respectable.

  Chanakya

  Awards, Punishment, People

  "Arthashastra" by Kautilya, translated by R. Shamasastry, Book I, (Ch. 4), 1915.

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• You may readily judge whether you are a child of God or a hypocrite by seeing in what direction your soul turns in seasons of severe trial. The hypocrite flies to the world and finds a sort of comfort there. But the child of God runs to his Father and expects consolation only from the Lord's hand.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Running, Children, Father

  Spurgeon, Charles H. “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 59: Sermons 3335-3386”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• That people even in well paid jobs choose ever earlier retirement is a severe indictment of our organizations - not just business, but government service, the universities. These people don't find their jobs interesting.

  Peter Drucker

  Retirement, Jobs, Organization

  "The Shape of Things to Come: An Interview with Peter F. Drucker". Leader to Leader, No. 1, 1996.

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• Frequently the enemy entices Christians to harbor an unforgiving spirit - a very common symptom indeed among God's children. Such bitterness and fault-finding and enmity inflict a severe blow upon spiritual life.

  Watchman Nee

  Forgiveness, Christian, Spiritual

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Spiritual Man”, p.554, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• But you must be patient and careful; nor should you expect to become an accomplished archer without long and severe training.

  Maurice Thompson

  Archer, Long, Training

  Maurice Thompson “The Witchery of Archery”, Lulu.com

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• Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves.

  Edmund Burke

  Adversity, Instructors, Knows

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• There is no condition so severe that you cannot reverse it by choosing different thoughts.

  Esther Hicks

  Law Of Attraction, Different, Reverse

  Esther Hicks, Jerry Hicks (2009). “Ask and it is Given: Learning to Manifest Your Desires”, p.121, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• But these days, there's also a strong economic argument for doing away with capital punishment. With California facing its most severe fiscal crisis in recent memory... it would be crazy not to consider the fact that it will add as much as $1 billion over the next five years simply to keep the death penalty on the books.

  John Van de Kamp

  Strong, Memories, Crazy

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• Sometimes, in the course of my hopeless quest, I would pick up and dip into one of the ordinary books that lay strewn around the castle. Whenever I did, it seemed so insipid and insubstantial that I flew into a rage and hurled it at the wall after reading the first few sentences. I was spoilt for any other form of literature, and the mental torment I endured was comparable to the agony of unrequited love compounded by the withdrawal symptoms associated with a severe addiction.

  Walter Moers

  Love, Wall, Book

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