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We deny the severity of our loved one's problem not because we are naive, but because we can't know. — David Sheff

Kindness effects more than severity. — Aesop

Whenever we suffer - no matter what the severity of our suffering is - we have the ability to find meaning in the situation. — Alex Pattakos

Summer has set in with its usual severity. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Compassionate doctors sometimes lie to patients about the severity of their condition, and it is not always wrong to do so. — Richard Dawkins

Better make penitents by gentleness than hypocrites by severity. — Saint Francis De Sales

Scientists have been warning about global warming for decades. It's too late to stop it now, but we can lessen its severity and impacts. — David Suzuki

Moral severity in women is only a dress or paint which they use to set off their beauty. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

There is a correlation between the severity of a person's moods and a lack of self-knowledge. — Jill Alexander Essbaum

Excessive severity misses its own aim. — Publilius Syrus

There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor. — Tacitus

The severity of the master is more useful than the indulgence of the father. — Saadi

The severity of the itch is proportional to the reach. — Steven Wright

Much is said about English severity, but not a word about Irish provocation. — Robert Peel

A great deal may be done by severity, more by love, but most by clear discernment and impartial justice. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

No severity of punishment deters when detection is uncertain, as it always must be. — George Bernard Shaw

Truth from the mouth of an honest man and severity from a good-natured man have a double effect. — William Hazlitt

Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity. — Charles Lamb

Ridicule is often employed with more power and success than severity. — Horace

It is pride which fills the world with so much harshness and severity. We are rigorous to offenses as if we had never offended. — Hugh Blair

It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort. — Quintilian

Jealousy seldom punishes with the severity it suffers. — Norm MacDonald

There seems to be a correlation between the intensity of the official attacks on gold and the severity of monetary crises. — Hans F. Sennholz

A human being will accept the strictest disciplinary measures with a better grace if he knows that they will fall with equal severity on his neighbor. — Stefan Zweig

It is better to err by excess of mercy than by excess of severity ... Wilt thou become a Saint? Be severe to thyself but kind to others. — Saint John Chrysostom

Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favor. — Samuel Johnson

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity. — George Eliot

The severity of the law of God is the necessary sequence of his infinite love. — G. Campbell Morgan

You decide. You be the judge. It says You are welcome regardless of severity. Severity is in the eye of the sufferer, it says. Pain is pain. — David Foster Wallace

I thought I could not breathe in that fine air That pure severity of perfect light I yearned for warmth and colour which I found In Lancelot. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Our passions may be compared to certain slaves
the more severity we show them, the better they obey us. — Norm MacDonald

Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others. — Alphonse Karr

Ridicule often cuts the knot, where severity fails. — Horace

Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect. — Pierre Corneille

You want to keep the severity of our environmental problems in mind enough to keep yourself motivated but not enough to paralyze you into depression. — Sara Gilbert

No matter the severity of suffering we experience in this life, it will always be less that what we have deserved for our sins — C.J. Mahaney

When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive. — Miguel De Cervantes

Every time I get injured I measure it's severity by asking myself 'Would this stop me from going to Disneyland?' — Chris Colfer

If you take every challenge everyone has in their life and multiply it in severity you get what it's like in the life of an actor. — Dee Wallace

The severity of the laws prevents their execution. — Charles De Montesquieu

The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight. — Joseph Addison

To prevent evil is the great end of government, the end for which vigilance and severity are properly employed. — Samuel Johnson

It is highly unlikely that a structural derangement could produce pain equal in severity to acute muscle spasm. — John E. Sarno

Despotism increases in severity with the number of despots; the responsibility is more divided, and the claims are more numerous. — William Wells Brown

That kind of discipline whose pungent severity is in the manifestations of paternal love, compassion, and tenderness is the most sure of its object. — Hosea Ballou

We are all mental cases at some time or another. You are, I am, everybody. It's usually a matter of frequency, severity, and timing. — William J. Coughlin

If you wage war, do it energetically and with severity. This is the only way to make it shorter and consequently less inhuman. — Napoleon Bonaparte

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"Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics! — Oscar Wilde

A victorious general must know how to employ severity, justness, and mildness by turns, if he would allay sedition or prevent it. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than the severity of punishment — Cesare Beccaria

Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality. — Henry David Thoreau

How easy it is to let the depth of the ditch or the severity of the brokenness stop a good work before we even stoop down to do it. — Christine Caine

His face gave her nothing in answer: it had that look of respectful severity with which a man stands before the fact that the truth is the truth. — Ayn Rand

she was exaggerating the severity of her condition in order to crave sympathy. Yet — John Van Der Kiste

In compassionate men, severity is a virtue. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I am determined to bring even more severity, clarity, and reserve into my life (she wrote in 1908). — John Peter Nettl

When death, the great Reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity. — George Eliot

A great reserve and severity of manners are necessary for the command of those who are older than ourselves. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Ambiguity lurks in generality and may thus become an instrument of severity. — Felix Frankfurter

The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject. — Matthew Arnold

It is better that a judge should lean on the side of compassion than severity. — Miguel De Cervantes

Who begins with severity, in judging of another, ends commonly with falsehood. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

The anger of God proceeds with a slow step to avenge itself, but that it compensates for its tardiness by the severity of its punishment. — John Calvin

When training young horses "There are many types of bits for many different disciplines, but the severity of ALL bits lies in the hands holding them." — Monty Roberts

Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion. — Terence

The smiles that encourage severity of judgment hide malice and insincerity. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Every acquisition, every step forward in knowledge is the result of courage, of severity toward oneself, of cleanliness with respect to oneself. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Catholics have a reputation for severity, for judgment that comes down heavily. — Yann Martel

Fables take off from the severity of instruction, and enforce it at the same time that they conceal it. — Joseph Addison

Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force. — Hermann Hesse