Harshness is for the good of a boy, soft-heartedness will ruin him.
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Book V, ch. 5Ihara Saikaku
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Soft-heartedness, in times like these,
Shows sof'ness in the upper story.James Russell Lowell
You only said did I regret the targets I did pick. There are some I regret not picking. I was much too soft on Mugabe. I say it in my memoir. I claim to have had good reasons for it, and I was very keen to see the end of white supremacist dictatorship in Southern Africa and I was probably soft-pedalling what I knew about some of ZANU-PF. But having a good enough motive is not a good enough reason for doing something that was a betrayal, really, of principles. Anyway, hoping to see the end of these and others is a good reason for KBO.
Christopher Hitchens
Her former trials had been sharp agony and strong excitement. Her present had neither the one nor the other; yet it was fraught with as heavy suffering, as any that had gone before it; even though she knew not, guessed not, _all_ that depended upon her conversion. It would have been comparatively easy to have endured, for her faith's sake, harshness and contempt; in such a case, self-respect rises to sustain us, and we value our own tenets the more, from their startling contrast with those which could command the cruelty we endure; but Father Denis used harshness neither of manner nor of words.
Grace Aguilar
Good critics, who have stamped out poets' hope,
Good statesmen, who pulled ruin on the state,
Good patriots, who for a theory risked a cause.Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Harshness towards individuals who flout the laws and commands of state is for the public good; no greater crime against the public interest is possible than to show leniency to those who violate it.
Cardinal (born Armand Jean du Plessis) Richelieu
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