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The worst that happened to men of science was that Galileo suffered an honorable detention and a mild reproof, before dying peacefully in his bed.
— Alfred North Whitehead
The life of a good man is at the same time the most eloquent lesson of virtue and the most severe reproof of vice.
— Samuel Smiles
Ah, how steadily do they who are guilty shrink from reproof!
— Amelia Bloomer
Include yourself in any reproof.
— Nachman Of Breslov
Be on your guard against the Pride that repels advice, resents reproof, and refuses to own a fault.
— A.L.O.E.
The patience and the humility of the face she loved so well was a better lesson to Jo than the wisest lecture, the sharpest reproof.
— Louisa May Alcott
Reproof is a medicine, like mercury or opium; if it be improperly administered, it will do harm instead of good.
— Horace Mann
A reproof entereth more into a woman of sense than an hundred compliments into a fool.
— Gelett Burgess
The humility that cringes in order that reproof may be escaped or favor obtained is as unchristian as it is profoundly immoral.
— Dallas Willard
A sharp reproof sometimes is a precious pearl, and a sweet balm. The wounds of secure sinners will not be healed with sweet words.
— Richard Sibbes
Reproof should not exhaust its power upon petty failings.
— Samuel Johnson
Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye.
— Samuel Lover
If you are a person who can not bear reproof, your only choice is to never to anything wrong.
— Unknown
Fear not the anger of the wise to raise; Those best can bear reproof who merit praise.
— Alexander Pope
He who cannot accept reproof cannot become great.
— Nachman Of Breslov
The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.
— Anonymous
An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
— Walter Savage Landor