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It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.

— Joseph Addison

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.

— William Gilmore Simms

The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.

— John Milton

There is something in age that ever, even in its own despite, must be venerable, must create respect and to have it ill treated, is to me worse, more cruel and wicked than anything on earth.

— Frances Burney

Persecutions are inevitable as a Christian. We are not greater than our Master, Jesus Christ, in whose Holy Spirit we gain strength to endure.

— Monica Johnson

To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.

— Plutarch

During intervals of humanity, some disposition has been manifested to permit the return of those who have never offended, who have been banished by a terror which the government itself has reprobated, & to permit in case of arrestation, an investigation of the fact of emigration as well as of the identity of the person accus'd.

— John Marshall

Indeed, no one does more injury in the church than he who acts perversely and yet has the name and order of sanctity.

— Jan Hus

Feast of the Holy Cross Does not every man feel, that there is corruption enough within him to drive him to the commission of the greatest enormities, and eternally to destroy his soul?

— Charles Simeon

The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honor.

— T. E. Lawrence

✗Opposing Perspectives

And I hereby distinctly and emphatically declare that I consider myself, and earnestly desire to be considered by others, as utterly divested, now and during the rest of my life, of any such rights, the barbarous relics of a feudal, despotic system.

— Robert Dale Owen