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• He that cometh to seek after knowledge, with a mind to scorn, shall be sure to find matter for his humour, but no matter for his instruction.

  Francis Bacon

  Knowledge, Mind, Matter

  Francis Bacon (1765). “The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes”, p.162

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• Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of their own vaunts.

  Francis Bacon

  Wise, Men, Vanity

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• Did any man at his death ever regret his conflicts with himself, his victories over appetite, his scorn of impure pleasure, or his sufferings for righteousness' sake?

  William Ellery Channing

  Regret, Men, Suffering

  William Ellery Channing, George Channing (1849). “(407 p.)”, p.121

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• Anger is certainly a kind of baseness; as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns; children, women, old folks, sick folks. Only men must beware, that they carry their anger rather with scorn, than with fear; so that they may seem rather to be above the injury, than below it; which is a thing easily done, if a man will give law to himself in it.

  Francis Bacon

  Children, Anger, Men

  Francis Bacon (1850). “Works”, p.306

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• How many ills spring from adultery? First the supreme law that is violated, Nobility oft stain'd with bastardy, Inheritance of land falsely possessed, The husband scorn'd, wife sham'd, and babes unbless'd.

  John Webster

  Husband, Spring, Law

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• There may be babblers, wholly ignorant of mathematics, who dare to condemn my hypothesis, upon the authority of some part of the Bible twisted to suit their purpose. I value them not, and scorn their unfounded judgment.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Ignorant, Suits, Purpose

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• True artists scorn nothing.

  Albert Camus

  Artist, True Artists

  Albert Camus (1960). “Speech of Acceptance Upon the Award of the Nobel Prize for Literature: Delivered in Stockholm on the Tenth of December, Nineteen Hundred and Fifty-seven. [Translated by Justin O'Brien”

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• Most beautiful, good things were done by women people scorn.

  Gillian Flynn

  Beautiful, People, Done

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• I do not regard the rise of woman as a bad sign. Rather do I fancy that her traditional subordination was itself an artificial and undesirable condition based on Oriental influences. Our virile Teutonic ancestors did not think their wives unworthy to follow them into battle, or scorn to dream of winged Valkyries bearing them to Valhalla.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Dream, Women, Thinking

  H. P. Lovecraft, August Derleth, James Turner (1976). “Selected Letters 1934-1937”, Arkham House Publishers

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• True courage scorns to vent her prowess in a storm of words; and to the valiant action speaks alone.

  Tobias Smollett

  Storm, Action, Speak

  Tobias Smollett, John Moore (1872). “The Works of Tobias Smollett, M. D. With Memoirs of His Life: to which is Prefixed A View of the Commencement and Progress of Romance”, p.189

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• But as the priceless treasure too frequently hides at the bottom of well, it needs some courage to dive for it, especially as he that does so will be likely to incur more scorn and obloquy for the mud and water into which he has ventured to plunge, than thanks for the jewel he procures; as like in manner, she who undertakes the cleansing of a careless bachelor's apartment will be liable to more abuse for the dust she raises than commendation for the clearance she effects.

  Anne Bronte

  Dust, Jewels, Water

  Anne Bronte, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte (2014). “The Complete Novels Of The Bronte Sisters: Seven-Book Bundle”, p.243, Harper Collins

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• Christianity without the cross is nothing. The cross was the fitting close of a life of rejection, scorn and defeat. But in no true sense have these things ceased or changed. Jesus is still He whom man despiseth, and the rejected of men. The world has never admired Jesus, for moral courage is yet needed in every one of its high places by him who would "confess" Christ. The "offense" of the cross, therefore, has led men in all ages to endeavor to be rid of it, and to deny that it is the power of God in the world.

  Lord Kelvin

  Jesus, Men, Rejection

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• If the choice is given to us of liberty or security, we must scorn the latter with the proper contempt of free man and the sound judgment of wise men who know that liberty and security are not incompatible in the lives of honest men.

  James Farley

  Wise, Men, Choices

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• Sleep is a god too proud to wait in palaces, and yet so humble too as not to scorn the meanest country cottages.

  Abraham Cowley

  Country, Humble, Sleep

  Abraham Cowley, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of Abraham Cowley ...”

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• I know I am--that simplest bliss
  The millions of my brothers miss.
  I know the fortune to be born,
  Even to the meanest wretch they scorn.

  Bayard Taylor

  Brother, Missing, Bliss

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• Old men, when they scorne young, make much of death.
  [Old men, when they scorn young, make much of death.]

  George Herbert

  Men, Young, Old Man

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• until you learn that an artist cannot afford to scorn any phase of life that is human, you will never do great work.

  Marjorie Benton Cooke

  Creativity, Artist, Phases

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• Wherever I am, I see the yoke on women in some form or another. On some it sits easy for they are but beasts of burden. On others pride hushes them to silence; no complaint is made for they scorn pity or sympathy. On some it galls and chafes; they feel assured by every instinct of their nature that they were designed for a higher, nobler calling than to 'drag life's lengthening chain along.

  Abby May Alcott

  Pride, Silence, Yoke

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• I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which 'Escape' is now so often used. Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls?

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Wall, Home, Men

  "On Fairy-Stories". Andrew Lang Lecture at the University of St. Andrews on March 08, 1939. "Essays presented to Charles Williams", 1947.

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• Men will let you abuse them if only you will make them laugh.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Laughing, Abuse

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• You will gain more by receiving scorn peacefully than if you fasted for a week on bread and water. It is good to humble ourselves; but it is much more worthwhile to accept the humiliations that come to us from others.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Humble, Water, Suffering

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• Let those who desire a secure homeland conquer it. Let those who do not conquer it live under the whip and in exile, watched over like wild animals, cast from one country to another, concealing the death of their souls with a beggar's smile from the scorn of free men.

  Jose Marti

  Country, Men, Animal

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• Thou knowest how numerous this tribe is, how united and how powerful in the assemblies. I will plead in a low voice so that only the judges may hear, for instigators are not lacking to stir up the crowd against me, and against all the best citizens. To scorn, in the interest of the Republic, this multitude of Jews so often turbulent in the assemblies shows a singular strength of mind. The money is in the Treasury; they do not accuse us of theft; they seek to stir up hatreds.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Powerful, Voice, Judging

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• Religion is either something we scorn because we are too rational or it's the realm of the fanatic who insists that their God and their religion is the only way and everyone else is dammed.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Humanity, Way

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• The lonely sunsets flare forlorn Down valleys dreadly desolate; The lonely mountains soar in scorn As still as death, as stern as fate.

  Robert W. Service

  Lonely, Sunset, Fate

  Robert William Service, “The Land God Forgot”

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