Virgil
Poet
"Harsh necessity, and the newness of my kingdom, force me to do such things and to guard my frontiers everywhere."
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Harsh
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Dylan Thomas
Poet, Writer
"Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction."
Aeschylus
Playwright
"Whoever is new to power is always harsh."
Voltaire
Philosopher, Writer
"You are very harsh.' 'I have seen the world."
Ralph Ellison
Novelist, Essayist
"Injustice wears ever the same harsh face wherever it shows itself."
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"Do not say anything harsh: what you have said will be said back to you."
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"Necessity is harsh. Fate has no reprieve."
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"I am quite content to go down to posterity as a scissors and paste man for that seems to me a harsh but not unjust description"
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"Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves and with others."
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"Be harsh with yourself at times."
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"No cause has he to say his doom is harsh, who's made the master of his destiny."
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"Nietzsche ... combines, in effect, Christ's harsh sayings: 'let the dead bury their dead' and 'narrow is the way which leadeth unto life'."
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"Free curiosity is of more value in learning than harsh discipline."
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"I DJ and I'm a harsh critic of DJs."
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"I am not being overly harsh. Overtly hostile, yes, but exactly the right amount of harsh."
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"Rules too soft are seldomly followed; rules too harsh are seldomly executed."
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"Plain and not honest is too harsh a style."
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"In the harsh face of life faith can read a bracing gospel."
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"In my own life, I have noticed when I have been meeting directors, that the same sentence with the same inflection can be said by a man, like: "Get me this." But if the same thing is said by a woman, it's seen as harsh and unacceptable. That always fascinates me."
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