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Anon.
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There is so much good in the worst of us,
And so much bad in the best of us,
That it ill behooves any of us,
To say anything about the rest of us.
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Japanese Proverb
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Fix the problem, not the blame.
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Anon.
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All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism.
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Gore Vidal
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Great critics do not explicate a text; they describe it and then report on what they have described, if the description itself is not the criticism.
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Henry Fielding
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Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.
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Henry Steele
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Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.
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Steve Ross
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You can't operate a company by fear, because the way to eliminate fear is to avoid criticism. And the way to avoid criticism is to do nothing.
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W. Somerset Maugham
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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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Anon.
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All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism.
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Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
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Really, to stop criticism, they say, one must die.
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Noel Coward
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I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.
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Frank A. Clark
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We're all generous, but with different things, like time, money, talent -- criticism.
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Jose Narosky
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We protest against unjust criticism, but we accept unearned applause.
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POPE: _E. on Criticism,_ Pt. iii., Line 66.
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For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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POPE: _E. on Criticism,_ Pt. ii., Line 162.
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'T is not enough no harshness gives offence,-- The sound must seem an echo to the sense.
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Henry Commager
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If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism if our government is to function it must have dissent.
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Franklin P. Jones
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Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger.
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Howard Mumford Jones
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Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.
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Robert Hutchins
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There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.
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POPE: _E. on Criticism,_ Pt. iii., Line 59.
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Most authors steal their works, or buy; Garth did not write his own Dispensary,
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Gore Vidal
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Great critics do not explicate a text; they describe it and then report on what they have described, if the description itself is not the criticism.
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Johann Kepler
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I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.
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POPE: _E. on Criticism,_ Pt. i., Line 152.
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From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.
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POPE: _E. on Criticism,_ Pt. iii., Line 23.
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Fear not the anger of the wise to raise; Those best can bear reproof who merit praise.
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Richard Hofstadter
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A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism-a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else.
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POPE: _E. on Criticism,_ Pt. ii., Line 266.
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Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue; But, like a shadow, proves the substance true.
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POPE: _E. on Criticism,_ Pt. ii., Line 156.
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A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.
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POPE: _E. on Criticism,_ Pt. iii., Line 9.
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Some positive, persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so; But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last.
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POPE: _E. on Criticism,_ Pt. ii., Line 274.
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Be thou the first true merit to befriend; His praise is lost, who stays till all commend.
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Charles Horton Cooley
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One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide.
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Honore de Balzac
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Everything is bilateral in the domain of thought. Ideas are binary. Janus is the myth of criticism and the symbol of genius. Only God is triangular!
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Michael Horton
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Theology, not morality, is the first business on the church's agenda of reform, and the church, not society, is the first target of divine criticism.
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POPE: _E. on Criticism,_ Pt. i., Line 25.
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So by false learning is good sense defac'd; Some are bewilder'd in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs, nature meant but fools.
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POPE: _E. on Criticism,_ Pt. ii., Line 324.
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Good nature and good sense must ever join; To err is human, to forgive divine.
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POPE: _E. on Criticism,_ Pt. iii., Line 103.
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Nor suffers Horace more in wrong translations By wits, than critics in as wrong quotations.
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Federico Mayor
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There is no virtue in being uncritical; nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism is only the burying beetle that gets rid of what is dead, and, since the world lives by creative and constructive forces, and not by negation and destru
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Henri Frdric Amiel
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A lively, disinterested, persistent looking for truth is extraordinarily rare. Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not to be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism or doubt.
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Bernard De Voto
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Between the amateur and the professional...there is a difference not only in degree but in kind. The skillful man is, within the function of his skill, a different psychological organization...A tennis player or a watchmaker or an airplane pilot is an automatism but he is also criticism and wisdom.
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Richard Livingstone
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There is no virtue in being uncritical nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism is only the burying beetle that gets rid of what is dead, and, since the world lives by creative and constructive forces, and not by negation and destruction, it is better to grow up in the company of prophets than of critics.
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Neither praise nor blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to proscribe, and honestly to award - these are the true aims and duties of criticism.
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To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
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To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.
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To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
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Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.
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Criticism comes easier than craftsmanship.
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I can accept constructive criticism of you
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For every action there is an equal and opposite criticism.
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Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
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He only profits from praise who values criticism.
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It is usually best to be generous with praise, but cautious with criticism.
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Suicide is the most sincere form of self criticism.
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If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
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It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not.
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All of us could take a lesson from the weather, it pays no attention to criticism.
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I can take any amount of criticism as long as I can consider it unqualified praise.
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If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism; if our government is to function it must have dissent.
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Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.
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You know criticism when you get into this business. You accept the bad with the good, the tabloids and the positive side of it.
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I have never found in a long experience of politics that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
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I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
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It is strange that we do not temper our resentment of criticism with a thought for our many faults which have escaped us.
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Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
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Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation, are by many regarded as grounds for exemption from the examination by this tribunal, But, if they are exempted, and cannot la
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"Democracy admits variety and permits criticism." -- Forster
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Criticism alone can sever the root of materialism, fatalism, atheism, free-thinking, fanaticism, and superstition, which can be injurious universally; as well as of idealism and skepticism, which are dangerous chiefly to the Schools, and hardly allow of b
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To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
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"For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism."
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Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have made it malignant, as a bad heart of Procrustes turned the bed, the symbol of repose, into an instrument of torture.
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Criticism is the disapproval of people, not for having faults, but having faults different from your own.
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"I like criticism, but it must be my way." -- Twain
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