#severity

An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up. ↗

— George Catlin

#back #clean #deer #down #dress

Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion. ↗

— Terence

#into #led #paths #persuasion #right

I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style. ↗

— Louis Aragon

#books #commas #demand #footsteps #grammar

The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#always #his #injures #loaded #parent

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity. ↗

— George Eliot

#death #great #never #our #repent

As the winter set in with its customary Canadian severity the real trouble of the French began. They did not suffer from the cold, but they were dying of scurvy. ↗

— Harry Johnston

#canadian #cold #customary #did #dying

This Department of Treasury, run by this administration, using the same tried and true accounting methods that every business in America uses, cast new light on the fiscal severity that our Nation is facing, what some would call a mess. ↗

— Jim Costa

#administration #america #business #call #cast

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity. ↗

— George Eliot

#death #never #our #repent #severity

The science linking the increased frequency and severity of extreme weather to the climate crisis has matured tremendously in the last couple of years. ↗

— Al Gore

#couple #crisis #extreme #frequency #increased

Scientists have been warning about global warming for decades. It's too late to stop it now, but we can lessen its severity and impacts. ↗

— David Suzuki

#been #decades #global #global warming #impacts