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• Though we may not desire to detect fraud, we must not, on that account, endeavor to be insensible of it, for, as cunning is a crime, so is duplicity a fault, and if men dread knaves, they also despise fools.

  Norm MacDonald

  Men, Duplicity, Desire

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• Nothing but real love--(how rare it is; has one human heart in a million ever known it?) nothing but real love can repay us for the loss of freedom--the cares and fears of poverty--the cold pity of the world that we both despise and respect.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Love, Real, Heart

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• If there be some who, though ignorant of all mathematics . . . dare to reprove this work, because of some passage of Scripture, which they have miserably warped to their purpose, I regard them not, and even despise their rash judgement.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Judgement, Ignorant, Scripture

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• Lying is a disgraceful vice, and one that Plutarch paints in most disgraceful colors, when he says that it is "affording testimony that one first despises God, and then fears men." It is not possible more happily to describe its horrible, disgusting, and abandoned nature; for can we imagine anything more vile than to be cowards with regard to men, and brave with regard to God.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Lying, Men, Color

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• Those who come a hundred or two hundred years after us will despise us for having lived our lives so stupidly and tastelessly. Perhaps they'll find a means to be happy.

  Anton Chekhov

  Happiness, Happy, Mean

  "Uncle Vanya". Play by Anton Chekhov, 1897.

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• Is it your thought that I despise some of these, while I love the others? I tell you, I despise nothing. None of it is repulsive to Me. It is life, and life is the gift; the unspeakable treasure; the holy of holies.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Religious, Treasure

  Neale Donald Walsch (1996). “Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.54, Penguin

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• I could see that making judgments about people so that they are tried and sentenced in your head, without asking them for their perspective, is both unethical and unproductive. So I learned to love real integrity and to despise the lack of it.

  Ray Dalio

  Life, Integrity, Real

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• Whoever despises himself still esteems the despiser within himself.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Esteem, Stills

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• Turn your eyes whither you will, enter into whatever temple you please, you will find there on the very threshold Prophecy and Sacrament .... whoever despises these two things, infallibly bends towards earth, knowing nothing of God but his name, and holding with him no other relations than ingratitude and forgetfulness.

  Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

  Eye, Knowing Nothing, Names

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• None despise fame more heartily than those who have no possible claim to it.

  Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

  Fame, Claims

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• I have been accused of being a ‘black magician.’ No more foolish statement was ever made about me. I despise the thing to such an extent that I can hardly believe in the existence of people so debased and idiotic as to practice it.

  Aleister Crowley

  Believe, Practice, People

  "The Worst Man in the World". The Sunday Dispatch, July 02, 1933.

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• It is a melancholy experience for a professional mathematician to find himself writing about mathematics. The function of a mathematician is to do something, to prove new theorems, to add to mathematics, and not to talk about what he or other mathematicians have done. Statesmen despise publicists, painters despise art-critics, and physiologists, physicists, or mathematicians have usually similar feelings: there is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain. Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds.

  G. H. Hardy

  Appreciation, Art, Writing

  G. H. Hardy (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.61, Cambridge University Press

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• The theoretician believes in logic and believes that he despises dreams, intuition, and poetry. He does not recognize that these three fairies have only disguised themselves in order to dazzle him.... He does not know that he owes his greatest discoveries to them.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Dream, Believe, Ignorance

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• Few of us have the necessary unselfishness to hear with gladness the talents of others extolled or to listen with patience to the successes of those whom we despise—Vivian

  D.E. Stevenson

  Talent, Gladness, Unselfishness

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• If one believes philosophers, then what we call religion is only a deliberately popularized or an instinctively artless philosophy. Poets seem to consider religion rather as a variation of poetry which by misjudging its proper beautiful game takes itself too seriously and one-sidedly. Philosophy, however, admits and recognizes that it can begin and complete itself only with religion. Poetry seeks only to strive for the infinite and despises worldly utility and culture, which are the true antitheses of religion. Eternal peace among artists is thus not far away.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Beautiful, Philosophy, Believe

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• What have I to do with millions [of people]? The eighty I know despise me.

  Charlotte Bronte

  People, Knows, Eighty

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• If you would have a boy to despise his mother, let her keep him at home, and spend her life in petting him up, and slaving to indulge his follies and caprices.

  Anne Bronte

  Mother, Home, Boys

  Anne Bronte (2016). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Diversion Illustrated Classics)”, p.40, Diversion Books

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• Seeing the lightest and gayest purple was then most in fashion, he would always wear that which was the nearest black; and he would often go out of doors, after his morning meal, without either shoes or tunic; not that he sought vain-glory from such novelties, but he would accustom himself to be ashamed only of what deserves shame, and to despise all other sorts of disgrace.

  Plutarch

  Fashion, Morning, Doors

  Plutarch (2011). “Plutarch's Lives”, p.528, Bantam

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• Never fear another challenger, no matter how large; Never despise another challenger, no matter how small.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Matter, Never Fear

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.65, Shambhala Publications

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• Before putting yourself in peril, it is necessary to foresee and fear it; but when one is there, nothing remains but to despise it.

  Francois Fenelon

  Courage, Peril, Remains

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• It is a proof of nobility of mind to despise injuries.

  Seneca the Younger

  Mind, Injury, Proof

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• I do not believe that the tendency is to make men and women brave and glorious when you tell them that there are certain ideas upon certain subjects that they must never express; that they must go through life with a pretence as a shield; that their neighbors will think much more of them if they will only keep still; and that above all is a God who despises one who honestly expresses what he believes.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Believe, Men, Thinking

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.758, Library of Alexandria

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• It is easier to hate an enemy with much good in him than one who is all bad. We cannot hate those we despise.

  Eric Hoffer

  Hate, Enemy, Easier

  ERIC HOFFER (1963). “THE TRUE BELIEVER”

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• Those that despise peace and admire war are crushed under the boots of the war!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Peace, War, Boots

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• I care not whether the soldiers are of Milesian, Teutonic, African or Angelo-Saxon descent. I despise the principle that make a difference between them in the hour of battle and of death.

  Thaddeus Stevens

  Differences, Soldier, Making A Difference

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