“ His scorn of the great is repeated too often to be real; no man thinks much of that which he despises. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do. ”
- Henry Wheeler Shaw- Copy
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“ Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored. ”
- Abraham Lincoln- Copy
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“ Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
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“ Please, never despise the translator. He's the mailman of human civilization. ”
- Alexander Pushkin- Copy
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“ Because the European does not know his own unconscious, he does not understand the East and projects it into everything he fears and despises in himself. ”
- Carl Gustav Jung- Copy
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“ What, my dear Lady Disdain! are you yet living? - Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt? ”
- Khalil Gibran- Copy
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“ Whoever despises himself still esteems the despiser within himself. ”
- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche- Copy
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“ Man is so much more sensitive to the contempt of others than to contempt for himself. ”
- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche- Copy
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“ I'm demanding that they charge me with contempt and with perjury, I'm demanding it. ”
- George Galloway- Copy
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“ He will come to her in yellow stockings, and 'tis a color she abhors, and cross-gartered, a fashion she detests; and he will smile upon her, which will now be so unsuitable to her disposition, being addicted to a melancholy as she is, that it cannot but turn him into a notable contempt. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams. ”
- Mary Ellen Kelly- Copy
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“ One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this. ”
- Cervantes- Copy
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“ Error always addresses the passions and prejudices; truth scorns such mean intrigue, and only addresses the understanding and the conscience. ”
- Azel Backus- Copy
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“ Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned. ”
- William Congreve- Copy
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“ A patriot is mocked, scorned and hated; yet when his cause succeeds, all men will join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me: of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain lays not its touch Upon a corpse. ”
- Aeschylus- Copy
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“ Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd. ”
- William Congreve- Copy
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