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rigor
«[She was] a copy editor, possessed of the rare capacity to sit all day in a small cubicle, like a monk in a cell, and read with an almost penitential rigor.»
Author: David Leavitt
| Keywords:
cell, copy, copy editor, cubicle, editor, monk, possessed, rigor, rigors
«The circumstances of human society are too complicated to be submitted to the rigor of mathematical calculation.»
Author: Marquis De Custine
(Writer)
| Keywords:
calculation, human society, mathematical, rigor, rigors, submitted
«Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects. Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold: extreme love breeds satiety, and so extreme hatred; and too violent rigor tempts chastity, as does too much license.»
«Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have all of my conduct distinguished by it.»
«They that enter into the world are too often treated with unreasonable rigor by those that were once as ignorant and heady as themselves; and distinction is not always made between the faults which require speedy and violent eradication, and those t»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
eradication, headier, heady, rigor, rigors, speedy, unreasonable
«You smile with pomp and rigor, you talk of benevolence and virtue; I act with benevolence and virtue and get murdered time after time.»
Author: William Blake
(Engraver, Mystic, Painter, Poet)
| Keywords:
benevolence, murdered, pomp, rigor, rigors, talk of, Time After Time