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• Say “no” only when it really matters. Wear a bright red shirt with bright orange shorts? Sure. Put water in the toy tea set? Okay. Sleep with your head at the foot of the bed? Fine. Samuel Johnson said, “All severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle."

  Gretchen Rubin

  Sleep, Parenting, Feet

  "Ten Ways To Be A More Light-Hearted Parent". www.huffingtonpost.com. May 17, 2019.

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• Not afraid of poverty and drabness and who is untouched by it, untouched by the drunkenness of her friends; (she) who judges, selects, discards people with severity, who knows, when she is telling her endless anecdotes, that they are ways of escape, keeping herself all the more secret behind that profuse talk.

  Anais Nin

  Judging, People, Secret

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• Charisma is the numinous aura around a narcissistic personality. It flows outward from a simplicity or unity of being and a composure and controlled vitality. There is gracious accommodation, yet commanding impersonality. Charisma is the radiance produced by the interaction of male and female elements in a gifted personality. The charismatic woman has a masculine force and severity. The charismatic man has an entrancing female beauty. Both are hot and cold, glowing with presexual self love.

  Camille Paglia

  Men, Glowing, Hot And Cold

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• 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

  Impact, Too Late, Warning

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• 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

  Teacher, Boys, Effort

  Quintilian (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Quintilian (Illustrated)”, p.78, Delphi Classics

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• The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Philosophical, Law, Execution

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• Forgiveness is not a feeling - it's a decision we make because we want to do what's right before God. It's a quality decision that won't be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.

  Joyce Meyer

  Decisions We Make, Feelings, Quality

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• Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense; benefits ought to be handed ought drop by drop, so that they may be relished the more.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Giving, Political, Benefits

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• The science linking the increased frequency and severity of extreme weather to the climate crisis has matured tremendously in the last couple of years.

  Al Gore

  Couple, Years, Weather

  "Al Gore: 'The message still has to be about the reality we're facing'". Interview With Brad Plumer, www.washingtonpost.com. September 12, 2011.

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• There is a difference between admitting and confessing. Admitting involves softening, making excuses for things that cannot be excused; confessing just names the crimes at its full severity.

  Veronica Roth

  Names, Differences, Admitting

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• If people knew what Matisse, supposedly the painter of happiness, had gone through, the anguish and tragedy he had to overcome to manage to capture that light which has never left him, if people knew all that, they would also realize that this happiness, this light, this dispassionate wisdom which seems to be mine, are sometimes well-deserved, given the severity of my trials.

  Henri Matisse

  Happiness, Light, People

  Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1995). “Matisse on Art”, p.11, Univ of California Press

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• 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

  War, Way, Inhuman

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• Crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than the severity of punishment

  Cesare Beccaria

  Punishment, Crime, Certainty

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• Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well. What satire on government can equal the severity of censure conveyed in the word politics ....?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Law, Political

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.525, Рипол Классик

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• An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up.

  George Catlin

  Taken, Rain, Winter

  George Catlin (1841). “The Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North-American Indians, by Geo. Catlin: With Four Hundred Illustrations, Etched and Outlined, from His Original Paintings Now Exhibiting in His Indian Museum, Egyptian Hall, London”, p.46

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• In slave times the Negro was kept subservient and submissive by the frequency and severity of the scourging, but, with freedom, a new system of intimidation came into vogue; the Negro was not only whipped and scourged; he was killed.

  Ida B. Wells

  Intimidation, Submissive, Slave

  Ida B. Wells-Barnett (2015). “The Red Record: Top Crime Collections”, p.2, 谷月社

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• Public emergencies may require the hand of severity to fall heavily on those who are not personally guilty, but compassion prompts, and ever urges to milder methods

  Mercy Otis Warren

  Fall, Compassion, Hands

  Mercy Otis Warren (1805). “History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution: Interspersed with Biographical, Political and Moral Observations. In Three Volumes”, p.338

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• True it is that she who escapeth safe and unpolluted from out the school of freedom, giveth more confidence of herself than she who comet sound out of the school of severity and restraint.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Freedom, School, Self Confidence

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• A rational process is a moral process. You may make an error at any step of it, with nothing to protect you but your own severity, or you may try to cheat, to fake the evidence and evade the effort of the quest - but if devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality, then there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.

  Ayn Rand

  Cheating, Truth, Responsibility

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.961, Penguin

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• 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

  Horse, Lying, Hands

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• Never lose your self-respect, nor be too familiar with yourself when you are alone. Let your integrity itself be your own standard of rectitude, and be more indebted to the severity of your own judgment of yourself than to all external percepts. Desist from unseemly conduct, rather out of respect for your own virtue than for the strictures of external authority.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Integrity, Self, Judgment

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

  Charles Lamb

  Summer, Writing, Usual

  Charles Lamb (2008). “The Life, Letters, and Writings of Charles Lamb”, p.117, Cosimo, Inc.

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

  Matthew Arnold

  Poetry, Simplicity, Noble

  On Translating Homer: Last Words (1862)

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• There should be relentless exposure of and attack upon every evil practice, whether in politics, in business, or in social life. I hail as a benefactor every writer or speaker, every man who, on the platform, or in book, magazine or newspaper, with merciless severity makes such attack, provided always that he in his turn remembers that the attack is of use only if it is absolutely truthful.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Book, Men, Practice

  The Man with the Muck-rake, delivered 14 April 1906

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• When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Law, Literature, Pity

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1771). “The History of the Renowned Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.68

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