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Some who will not speak against another, in the end does them harm. Proverbs Reform 100
What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself. Thomas Sprat Reform 99
You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side. William Ewart Gladstone Reform 97
To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away. Arthur Schopenhauer Reform 94
No one is to blame. It is neither their fault nor ours. It is the misfortune of being born when a whole world is dying. Alexander Herzen Reform 90
A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat. Lydia Maria Child Reform 87
By continually scolding someone, they in time become accustomed to it and despise your reproof. Proverbs Reform 82
I think I am better than the people who are trying to reform me. Edward W. Howe Reform 81
As for when to reform the yuan, there is no timetable yet. Wu Yi Reform 81
Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults. Socrates Reform 80
Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, which will itself need reforming. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Reform 79
Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time. Sydney Smith Reform 79
Why, Sir, most schemes of political improvement are very laughable things. Samuel Johnson Reform 75
Rebuke should have a grain more of salt than of sugar. Proverbs Reform 72
Rebuke with soft words and hard arguments. Proverbs Reform 71
I know reform is never easy. But I know reform is right. Julia Gillard Reform 68
A reformer is a guy who rides through the sewer in a glass bottom boat. Mayor Jimmy Walker Reform 66
People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this, -- that reform consists in taking a bone from a dog. Philosophy will not do it. John Jay Chapman Reform 61
The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform. Alexis de Tocqueville Reform 57
Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve! Thomas Babington Macaulay Reform 57
Sarcasm spoils reproof. E. Wigglesworh Reform 56
Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself. Voltaire (Fran Reform 56
People who have reformed themselves has contributed their full share towards the reformation of their neighbor. Norman Douglas Reform 55
With children use force with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law. Jean Jacques Rousseau Reform 55
If it was not absolutely necessary, it was the foolishest thing ever done. Lord Melbourne Reform 51
The heart of every man lies open to the shafts of correction if the archer can take proper aim. Oliver Goldsmith Reform 49
Private reproof is the best grave for private faults. Proverbs Reform 46
Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age. Ralph Waldo Emerson Reform 44
We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly. Madame Swetchine Reform 41
Men must be capable of imagining and executing and insisting on social change if they are to reform or even maintain civilization, and capable too of furnishing the rebellion which is sometimes necessary if society is not to perish of immobility. Rebecca West Reform 37
Experience has two things to teach. The first is that we must correct a great deal and the second, that we must not correct too much. Eugene Delacroix Reform 35
Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place. Moli Reform 32
When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart. Horace Mann Reform 31
In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it. H. G. [Herbert George] Wells Reform 30

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