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Some who will not speak against another, in the end does them harm.
-Proverb
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Rebuke with soft words and hard arguments.
-Proverb
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Rebuke should have a grain more of salt than of sugar.
-Proverb
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Private reproof is the best grave for private faults.
-Proverb
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By continually scolding someone, they in time become accustomed to it and despise your reproof.
-Proverb
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Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.
-Louisa May Alcott
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Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.
-Thomas Carlyle
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To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.
-Thomas Carlyle
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People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this, -- that reform consists in taking a bone from a dog. Philosophy will not do it.
-John Jay Chapman
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A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat.
-Lydia Maria Child
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Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, which will itself need reforming.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Experience has two things to teach. The first is that we must correct a great deal and the second, that we must not correct too much.
-Eugene Delacroix
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People who have reformed themselves has contributed their full share towards the reformation of their neighbor.
-Norman Douglas
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Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side.
-William Ewart Gladstone
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The heart of every man lies open to the shafts of correction if the archer can take proper aim.
-Oliver Goldsmith
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Until politics are a branch of science we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium.
-J.B.S. Haldane
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No one is to blame. It is neither their fault nor ours. It is the misfortune of being born when a whole world is dying.
-Alexander Herzen
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I think I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.
-Edward W. Howe
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The amelioration of the world cannot be achieved by sacrifices in moments of crisis; it depends on the efforts made and constantly repeated during the humdrum, uninspiring periods, which separate one crisis from another, and of which normal lives mainly consist.
-Aldous Huxley
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Why, Sir, most schemes of political improvement are very laughable things.
-Samuel Johnson
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Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!
-Thomas Babington Macaulay
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When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart.
-Horace Mann
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If it was not absolutely necessary, it was the foolishest thing ever done.
-Lord Melbourne
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Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
-Moli
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Books about Reform, Correction
