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• We despise no source that can pay us a pleasing attention.

  Mark Twain

  Attention, Pay, Flattery

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.3362, Delphi Classics

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• Near eighty years ago we began by declaring that all men are created equal; but now from that beginning we have run down to the other declaration, that for SOME men to enslave OTHERS is a "sacred right of self-government." These principles can not stand together. They are as opposite as God and mammon; and whoever holds to the one, must despise the other.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Running, Religious, Men

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.72, Penguin

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• For a Christian to defy adversities is to "despise" chastisement. Instead of hardening himself to endure stoically, there should be a melting of the heart.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Christian, Heart, Adversity

  Arthur W. Pink (2007). “Comfort for Christians”, p.43, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• Did you get your money by fraud? By pandering to men's vices or men's stupidity? By catering to fools, in the hope of getting more than your ability deserves? By lowering your standards? By doing work you despise for purchasers you scorn? If so, then your money will not give you a moment's or a penny's worth of joy. Then all the things you buy will become, not a tribute to you, but a reproach; not an achievement, but a reminder of shame.

  Ayn Rand

  Money, Men, Giving

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.315, Hamilton Books

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• All womanhood is hampered today because the world on which it is emerging is a world that tries to worship both virgins and mothers and in the end despises motherhood and despoils virgins.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Mother, Trying, World

  W. E. B. Du Bois (2012). “Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil”, p.96, Courier Corporation

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• I have an intellectual inclination for democratic institutions, but I am instinctively an aristocrat, which means that I despise and fear the masses. I passionately love liberty, legality, the respect for rights, but not democracy....liberty is my foremost passion. That is the truth.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Mean, Passion, Rights

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• Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true before it gets to be a platitude.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Truth, People, Platitudes

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1916). “Vain Oblations”

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• Ay, do despise me, I'm the prouder for it; I like to be despised.

  Jonathan Swift

  Pride, Despised

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• I despise the fact that the youth today acts as if being youthful is the answer to everything. It's a very young minded perspective and if you're not smart enough to realize that in life evolution is real. What that means is, we all are evolving and getting older every second of the day. That means it's about what you know, what you do and how hard you press the button to make it go. If you're not willing to put it in the time, energy and work in, then it doesn't matter how young you are. You'll be here and gone tomorrow if you don't learn something.

  Sean Garrett

  Smart, Real, Mean

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• It hurts me to think that people in their rush for everything modern despise all their ancient traditions and ignore them in their lives.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Hurt, Thinking, People

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.156, Courier Corporation

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• Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises one, slights the other.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Keys, Language, Linguists

  "The Characters or Manners of the Present Age". Book by Jean de La Bruyère, Chapter XII, 1688.

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• It would be foolish to despise tradition. But with our growing self-consciousness and increasing intelligence we must begin to control tradition and assume a critical attitude toward it, if human relations are ever to change for the better.

  Albert Einstein

  Attitude, Self, Would Be

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb”, p.475, Princeton University Press

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• All pleasures must be paid for, do not despise those that state their price.

  Amin Maalouf

  Pleasure, States, Paid

  Amin Maalouf (1994). “The Rock of Tanios”, George Braziller

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• So this is how a person can come to despise himself-knowing he's doing the wrong thing and not being able to stop.

  Daniel Keyes

  Knowing, Able, Persons

  Daniel Keyes (2007). “Flowers for Algernon”, p.108, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Not even Sen. [Joseph] McCarthy was able to repress ideas he opposed as effectively as Harvard's hiring committees have suppressed the conservative viewpoints they despise and fear.

  David Horowitz

  Ideas, Viewpoints, Politics

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• I think that all the silence is worse than all the violence, Fear is such a weak emotion that's why I despise it, We scared of almost everything, afraid to even tell the truth, So scared of what you think of me, I'm scared of even telling you...

  Lupe Fiasco

  Thinking, Silence, Violence

  "Song: Words I Never Said (Lasers)". February 8, 2011.

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• When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Gains, Nuance

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.233, Modern Library

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• I have no use for cranks who despise music, because it is a gift of God. Music drives away the Devil and makes people joyful; they forget thereby all wrath, unchastity, arrogance, and the like. Next after theology, I give to music the highest place and the greatest honor.

  Martin Luther

  Inspirational, Music, God

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• Some indeed there are who profess to despise all flattery, but even these are nevertheless to be flattered, by being told that they do despise it.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Flattery, Nevertheless, Flattered

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.206

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• We cannot ask a man what he will do, and if we should, and he should answer us, we should despise him for it. Therefore we must take a man whose opinions are known.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Answers, Opinion

  Conversation with George Sewall Boutwell concerning the nomination of Salmon P. Chase to the U.S. Supreme Court, reported by Boutwell in his "Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs", vol. 2, (p. 29), 1902.

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• When man, governed by reasonable laws, enjoys his natural freedom, let him despise woman, if she do not share it with him.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Men, Law, Feminism

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2015). “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”, p.57, Booklassic

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• Actively we have woven ourselves with the very warp and woof of this nation, - we have fought their battles, shared their sorrow, mingled our blood with theirs, and generation after generation have pleaded with a headstrong, careless people to despise not Justice, Mercy and Truth, lest the nation be smitten with a curse. Our song, our toil, our cheer and warning have been given to this nation in blood-brotherhood. Are not these gifts worth the giving? Is not this worth the striving? Would America have been America without her Negro People?

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Song, Cheer, Blood

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• I believe in pride of race and lineage and self: in pride of self so deep as to scorn injustice to other selves; in pride of lineage so great as to despise no man's father; in pride of race so chivalrous as neither to offer bastardy to the weak nor beg wedlock of the strong, knowing that men may be brothers in Christ, even though they be not brothers-in-law.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Brother, Strong, Father

  W.E.B. Du Bois, Bob Blaisdell (2013). “W. E. B. Du Bois: Selections from His Writings”, p.61, Courier Corporation

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• Because the road is rough and long, Should we despise the skylark's song?

  Anne Bronte

  Song, Long, Should

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• That a man can take pleasure in marching in formation to the strains of a band is enough to make me despise him. He has only been given his big brain by mistake; a backbone was all he needed.

  Albert Einstein

  Business, Mistake, Men

  Albert Einstein (2011). “The World As I See It”, p.15, Open Road Media

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