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• Love and grief and motherhood, Fame and mirth and scorn - these are all shall befall, Any woman born.

  Margaret Widdemer

  Grief, Motherhood, Mirth

  Margaret Widdemer (1917). “Factories, Poems”

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• Towering genius disdains a beaten path ... It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts for distinction.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Genius, Path, Distinction

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.14, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I would not for a moment have you suppose that I am one of those idiots who scorns Science, merely because it is always twisting and turning, and sometimes shedding its skin, like the serpent that is [the doctors'] symbol.

  Robertson Davies

  Science, Doctors, Skins

  Robertson Davies (2008). “Selected Works on the Pleasures of Reading”, Penguin Group Canada

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• There's this great fashion among writers, especially those who follow the transnational conservatives like V.S. Naipaul, to disavow one's place in the world as a sort of box that has sprung you but is only worthy of your scorn, because it once contained you. And I've been tempted to say foolish things, like "I am an American writer" or "I belong nowhere," but the truth is I'm perfectly proud of identifying as an Indian writer, even if that might hurt my bottom line.

  Karan Mahajan

  Fashion, Hurt, World

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Thank you for your input; I can tell you are struggling towards being interesting.

  Stephen Fry

  Struggle, Interesting, Input

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• This is a super masticated subject, and it is time to spit it out.

  Boris Johnson

  Spit, Subjects

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• Besides this earth, and besides the race of men, there is an invisible world and a kingdom of spirits: that world is around us, for it is everywhere; and those spirits watch us, for they are commissioned to gaurd us; and if we were dying in pain and shame, if scorn smote us on all sides, and hatred crushed us, angels see our tortures, recognize our innocence, and God waits ony a speration of spirit from flesh to crown us with a full reward.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Pain, Angel, Men

  "Jane Eyre". Book by Charlotte Bronte, October 16, 1847.

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• All migrants leave their pasts behind, although some try to pack it into bundles and boxes-but on the journey something seeps out of the treasured mementoes and old photographs, until even their owners fail to recognize them, because it is the fate of migrants to be stripped of history, to stand naked amidst the scorn of strangers upon whom they see rich clothing, the brocades of continuity and the eyebrows of belonging.

  Salman Rushdie

  Fate, Past, Journey

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• Night of Sleepless Love The night above. We two. Full moon. I started to weep, you laughed. Your scorn was a god, my laments moments and doves in a chain. The night below. We two. Crystal of pain. You wept over great distances. My ache was a clutch of agonies over your sickly heart of sand. Dawn married us on the bed, our mouths to the frozen spout of unstaunched blood. The sun came through the shuttered balcony and the coral of life opened its branches over my shrouded heart.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Pain, Distance, Heart

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• I, being born a woman and distressed By all the needs and notions of my kind, Am urged by your propinquity to find Your person fair, and feel a certain zest To bear your body's weight upon my breast; So subtly is the fume of life designed, To clarify the pulse and cloud the mind, And leave me once again undone, possessed. Think not for this, however, the poor treason Of my stout blood against my staggering brain, I shall remember you with love, or season My scorn with pity, - let me make it plain: I find this frenzy insufficient reason For conversation when we meet again.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Thinking, Clouds, Remember You

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2003). “Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems”, p.79, Library of America

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• While I was looking the other way your fire went out Left me with cinders to kick into dust What a waste of the wonder you were In my living fire I will keep your scorn and mine In my living fire I will keep your heartache and mine At the disgrace of a waste of a life

  Kristin Cashore

  Fire, Dust, Heartache

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.7, Penguin

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• He deserves nothing. Nothing but our scorn. (Father) Then I am rich indeed from the abundance of that which you’ve shown me. (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Father, Abundance, Rich

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2013). “Styxx”, p.294, St. Martin's Press

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• He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear His hopes 'bove wisdom, grace and fear: And you all know, security Is mortals' chiefest enemy.

  William Shakespeare

  Fate, Grace, Enemy

  William Shakespeare (2008). “Macbeth”, p.202, Cambridge University Press

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• One will hate you for taking his life, another will run to excesses that you scorn. A third will emerge mad and raving, another a monster you cannot control. One will be jealous of your superiority, another shut you out... And the veil will always come down between you Make a legion, you will be, always and forever alone!

  Anne Rice

  Running, Hate, Jealous

  Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.769, Ballantine Books

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• THERE IS NO mystery to happiness. Unhappy men are alike. Some wound they suffered long ago, some wish denied, some blow to pride, some kindling spark of love put out by scorn--or worse, indifference--cleaves to them, or they to it, and so they live each day within a shroud of yesterdays. The happy man does not look back. He doesn't look ahead. He lives in the present.

  Jed Rubenfeld

  Pride, Blow, Men

  Jed Rubenfeld (2008). “The Interpretation of Murder”, p.12, Hachette UK

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• Faith is not belief in spite of evidence but a life in scorn of the consequences.

  Clarence Jordan

  Belief, Spite, Evidence

  Clarence Jordan (2005). “The Substance of Faith: and Other Cotton Patch Sermons”, p.43, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• He had been content with daily labour and rough animal enjoyments, 'till Catherine crossed his path. Shame at her scorn, and hope of her approval, were his first prompts to higher pursuits; and, instead of guarding him from one and winning him to the other, his endeavors to raise himself had produced just the contrary result.

  Emily Bronte

  Animal, Winning, Guarding

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• How beautiful you are! You are more beautiful in anger than in repose. I don't ask you for your love; give me yourself and your hatred; give me yourself and that pretty rage; give me yourself and that enchanting scorn; it will be enough for me.

  Charles Dickens

  Beautiful, Hate, Giving

  Charles Dickens (2009). “The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: Edwin Drood and Miscellaneous”, p.196, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I am obnoxious to each carping tongue/ Who says my hand a needle better fits./ A poet's pen all scorn I should thus wrong/ For such despite they cast on female wits;/ If what I do prove well, it won't advance,/ They'll say it's stolen, or else, it was by chance.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Hands, Female, Tongue

  1678 Several Poems Compiled with Great Variety of Wit and Learning,'The Prologue'.

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• Wherefore was I to this keen mockery born? When at your hands did I deserve this scorn? Is't not enough, is't not enough, young man, That I did never, no, nor never can, Deserve a sweet look from Demetrius' eye, But you must flout my insufficiency?

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Eye, Men

  William Shakespeare, William Harness, William Gilmore Simms (1842). “The Complete Works of William Shakspeare”, p.156

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• See! those fiendish lineaments graven on the darkness, the writhed lip of scorn, the mockery of that living eye, the pointed finger, touching the sore place in your heart! Do you remember any act of enormous folly, at which you would blush, even in the remotest cavern of the earth? Then recognize your Shame.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Heart, Eye, Touching

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated)”, p.1732, Delphi Classics

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• Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise. That last infirmity of noble mind. To scorn delights, and live laborious days.

  John Milton

  Mind, Noble, Delight

  "Lycidas" l. 70 (1638). A 1619 play thought to be written by John Fletcher, Sir John van Olden Barnavelt act 1, sc. 1, refers to "the desire of glory (That last infirmity of noble minds)." That play was lost and not rediscovered until 1883, so Milton's parallel words were coincidental.

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• A person gets from a symbol the meaning he puts into it, and what is one man's comfort and inspiration is another's jest and scorn.

  Robert H. Jackson

  Inspiration, Men, Comfort

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• This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high.

  Abraham Cowley

  Lying, Mean, Envy

  'Essays, in Verse and Prose' (1668) 'Of Myself'

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• Content may dwell in all stations. To be low but above contempt may be high enough to be happy.

  Thomas Browne

  May, Enough, Lows

  Sir Thomas Browne (1844). “Religio Medici. Its sequel, Christian Morals ... With resemblant passages from Cowper's Task, and a verbal index. [Edited by John Peace.]”, p.147

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