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• Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.

  John Gay

  Envy, May, Fool

  John Gay, Thomas Park (1808). “The Poetical Works of John Gay: In Three Volumes. Collated with the Best Editions:”, p.76

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• If one swain scorns you, you will soon find another.

  Virgil

  Philosophical, Ifs

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• As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

  Akhenaton

  Courage, Heart, Rocks

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• Your public servants serve you right; indeed often they serve you better than your apathy and indifference deserve.

  Adlai Stevenson I

  Apathy, Indifference, Servant

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Then no rightful cause was left, and the pain of anger was turning into the shameful pain of submission. He had no right to condemn anyone - he thought - to denounce anything, to fight and die joyously, claiming the sanctity of virtue. The broken promises, the unconfessed desires, the betrayal, the deceit, the lies, the fraud - he was guilty of them all. What form of corruption could he scorn? Degrees do not matter, he thought; one does not bargain about inches of evil.

  Ayn Rand

  Betrayal, Pain, Lying

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• When my mother makes out her income tax return every year, under occupation she writes, eroding my daughter's self-esteem.

  Robin Roberts

  Mother, Daughter, Self Esteem

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• Everything can be borne except contempt.

  Voltaire

  Contempt

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• From beasts we scorn as soulless, In forest, field and den, The cry goes up to witness The soulessness of men

  William Inge

  Animal, Men, Fields

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• A leader is a person who has learned to obey a discipline imposed from without, and has then taken on a more rigorous discipline from within. Those who rebel against authority and scorn self-discipline - who shirk the rigors and turn from the sacrifices - do not qualify to lead.

  J. Oswald Sanders

  Leadership, Christian, Taken

  J. Oswald Sanders (2007). “Spiritual Leadership: Principles of Excellence For Every Believer”, p.52, Moody Publishers

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• I report the assault on nature evidenced in coal mining that tears the tops off mountains and dumps them into rivers, sacrificing the health and lives of those in the river valleys to short-term profit, and I see a link between that process and the stock-market frenzy which scorns long-term investments-genuine savings-in favor of quick turnovers and speculative bubbles whose inevitable bursting leaves insiders with stuffed pockets and millions of small stockholders, pensioners, and employees out of work, out of luck, and out of hope.

  Bill Moyers

  Sacrifice, Rivers, Work Out

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• What we take for high-mindedness is very often no other than ambition well disguised, that scorns means interests, only to pursuegreater.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Ambition, Mean, Interest

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• For a significant man
  woman, the one thought he values greatly, to the laughter and scorn of insignificant men, is a key to hidden treasure chambers; for those others, it is nothing but a piece of old iron.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Laughter, Men, Iron

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• When I was fair and young, and favor graced me,
  Of many was I sought, their mistress for to be;
  But I did scorn them all, and answered them therefore,
  "Go, go, go seek some otherwhere!
  Importune me no more!

  Elizabeth I

  Rejection, Mistress, Favors

  Elizabeth I, Leah S. Marcus, Janel Mueller, Mary Beth Rose (2000). “Elizabeth I: Collected Works”, p.304, University of Chicago Press

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• Thou breeze, That mak'st an organ of the mighty sea, Obedient to thy wilful phantasies, Provoke him not to scorn; but soft and low, As pious maid awakes her aged sire, On tiptoe stealing, whisper in his ear The tidings of the young god's victory.

  Hartley Coleridge

  Sea, Victory, Ears

  Hartley Coleridge (1851). “Poems by Hartley Coleridge”, p.310

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• The gulls who scorn perfection for the sake of travel go nowhere, slowly. Those who put aside travel for the sake of perfection go anywhere, instantly.

  Richard Bach

  Perfection, Gulls, Sake

  Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The New Complete Edition”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• Because right is right, to follow right Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Wisdom, Consequence

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.57, Cambridge University Press

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• Dowered with the hate of hate, the scorn of scorn, The love of love.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Love, Hate

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.2492, Delphi Classics

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• And now because you are His child, live as a child of God; be redeemed from the life of evil, which is false to your nature, into the life of goodness, which is the truth of your being. Scorn all that is mean; hate all that is false; struggle with all that is impure Live the simple, lofty life which befits an heir of immortality.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Children, Hate, Struggle

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 314), 1895.

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• Fly not yet; 't is just the hour When pleasure, like the midnight flower That scorns the eye of vulgar light, Begins to bloom for sons of night And maids who love the moon.

  Charles Lamb

  Love, Flower, Eye

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• And better had they ne'er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.

  Walter Scott

  Doubt, Born

  Walter Scott, Sir Walter Scott (1841). “The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart”, p.680

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• Patriotism can flourish only where racism and nationalism are given no quarter. We should never mistake patriotism for nationalism. A patriot is one who loves his homeland. A nationalist is one who scorns the homelands of others.

  Johannes Rau

  Mistake, Racism, Patriot

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• Over time I learned that there were a lot of people who would judge you, blame you, and try to make you feel lesser, no matter what you did; that a degree, a good suit, and a career wouldn't always insulate you from scorn.

  Rachel Lloyd

  Careers, Judging, People

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• Those who scorn you taunt only themselves -- I knew this without reading one word; because in reading one is reminded of the truth man is given at birth -- by man I mean man and woman.

  David Adam

  Reading, Mean, Men

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• I've built many doorways and set out traps so that no one will be able to reach this place. That's what the angel said. This is a castle of darkness for the angel and I alone. Only within this yielding gloom can I lament the misfortune that has rained down all around me, only here am I permitted to scorn and pity the ugliness, the filthiness of how I smile and pretend at being pure in the light of day.

  Mizuki Nomura

  Angel, Light, Darkness

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• From imperial, economic and ideological causes, many cultures are the inheritors, and hence the prisoners, of attitudes of scorn and disdain for other faiths – outlooks which are not ennobling to anyone.

  Idries Shah

  Attitude, Culture, Causes

  Idries Shah (1974). “The Elephant in the Dark”, p.11, Octagon Press Ltd

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