Man's desire for the approval of his fellows is so strong, his dread of their censure so violent, that he himself has brought his enemy within his gates; and it keeps watch over him, vigilant always in the interests of its master to crush any half-formed desire to break away from the herd.
The moral I draw is that the writer should seek his reward in the pleasure of his work and in release from the burden of his thought; and, indifferent to aught else, care nothing for praise or censure, failure or success.
Yes, novels; for I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel-writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure the very performances, to the number of which they are themselves adding—joining with their greatest enemies in bestowing the harshest epithets on such works, and scarcely ever permitting them to be read by their own heroine, who, if she accidentally take up a novel, is sure to turn over its insipid pages with disgust.
From Pope, she learnt to censure those who "bear about the mockery of woe.
This was the man that old man Ellison met on the trail; and when you count up in the baron's favour that he was sixty-five and weighed ninety-eight pounds and had heard of King James's record and that he (the baron) had a hankering for the vita simplex and had no gun with him and wouldn't have used it if he had, you can't censure him if I tell you that the smiles with which the troubadour had filled his wrinkles went out of them and left them plain wrinkles again.
( O) Mankind censure injustice, fearing that they may be the victims of it and not because they shrink from commintting it.
It's too difficult to try to censure yourself on Facebook for your colleagues.
It's too difficult to try to censure yourself on Facebook for your colleagues.
The Night Manager star drew censure on social media for a speech in which he referred to aid workers in South Sudan "binge-watching" the programme.
O Mankind censure injustice, fearing that they may be the victims of it and not because they shrink from commintting it.
( O) Mankind censure injustice, fearing that they may be the victims of it and not because they shrink from committing it.
Barrie (1860 - 1937) You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.
Eddie Rickenbacker (1890 - 1973) Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society.
If he is a true genius, he can bear the sharp voice of censure.
