The sick mind can not bear anything harsh. [ Ovid ]

Wit will shine
Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line. [ Dryden ]

A mind diseased cannot bear anything harsh. [ Ovid ]

A disorderly patient makes a harsh physician. [ Publius Syrus ]

I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice. [ William Lloyd Garrison ]

Now see that noble and most sovereign reason, like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh. [ William Shakespeare ]

Harsh cousels have little or no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil. [ Helvetius ]

How charming is divine philosophy! not harsh nor crabbed, as dull fools suppose, but musical as is Apollo's lute! [ Milton ]

Speak no harsh words of earth; she is our mother, and few of us her sons who have not added a wrinkle to her brow. [ Alexander Smith ]

If the wave could speak in any other language than that of its own harsh thunder, how many tales of agony and suffering might it unfold. [ Selkirk ]

Her hand, in whose comparison all whites are ink writing their own reproach, to whose soft seizure the cygnet's down is harsh, and spirit of sense hard as the palm of ploughman! [ William Shakespeare ]

Women of the world never use harsh expressions when condemning their rivals. Like the savage, they hurl elegant arrows, ornamented with feathers of purple and azure, but with poisoned points.

It is quite as easy to give our children musical and pleasing names as those that are harsh and difficult; and it will be found by the owners, when they have grown to knowledge, that there is much in a name. [ Locke ]

Neither can we admit that definition of genius that some would propose - a power to accomplish all that we undertake; for we might multiply examples to prove that this definition of genius contains more than the thing defined. Cicero failed in poetry. Pope in painting. Addison in oratory; yet it would be harsh to deny genius to these men. [ Colton ]