A man must find his occasions in himself, it is true. The natural day is very calm, and will hardly reprove his indolence.
A man must find his occasions in himself, it is true. The natural day is very calm, and will hardly reprove his indolence.
Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.
Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
A light to guide, a rod To check the erring, and reprove.
Reprove your friend privately, commend him publicly.
If not to answer, you might haply think
Tongue-tied ambition, not replying, yielded
To bear the golden yoke of sovereignty,
Which fondly you would here impose on me;
If to reprove you for this suit of yours,
So season'd with your faithful love to me,
Then, on the other side, I check'd my friends.
Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
To reprove small faults within due vehemence, is as absurd as if a man should take a great hammer to kill a fly on his friend's forehead.
Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them.
Not in scorn do I reprove thee,
Not in pride thy vows I waive,
But, believe, I could not love thee,
Wert thou prince, and I a slave.
Our pride rather than our virtue criticizes the faults of others We reprove our friends less to correct their faults than to show that weourselves are free of them.
Reprove not, in their wrath, excited men good counsel comes all out of season then but when their fury is appeased and past, they will perceive their faults, and mend at last. When he is cool and calm, then utter it.
Reprove your friends in secret, praise them openly.
If there be some who, though ignorant of all mathematics . . . dare to reprove this work, because of some passage of Scripture, which they have miserably warped to their purpose, I regard them not, and even despise their rash judgement.
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