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• Amidst the flood of dangerous reading, I plead for my Master's book; I call upon you not to forget the book of the soul. Do not let newspapers, novels, and romances be read, while the prophets and Apostles be despised. Do not let the exciting and sensual swallow up your attention, while the edifying and the sanctifying can find no place in your mind.

  J. C. Ryle

  Reading, Book, Romance

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• What has been done is little-scarcely a beginning; yet it is much in comparison with the total blank of a century past. And our knowledge will, we are easily persuaded, appear in turn the merest ignorance to those who come after us. Yet it is not to be despised, since by it we reach up groping to touch the hem of the garment of the Most High.

  Agnes Mary Clerke

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Science

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• In our native terms, the ironic style is often compounded with the sardonic and the hard-boiled; even the effortlessly superior. But irony originates in the glance and the shrug of the loser, the outsider, the despised minority. It is a nuance that comes most effortlessly to the oppressed.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Sunset, Ironic, Style

  Christopher Hitchens (2014). “Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere”, p.180, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• It is not the glorious battlements, the painted windows, the crouching gargoyles that support a building, but the stones that lie unseen in or upon the earth. It is often those who are despised and trampled on that bear up the weight of a whole nation.

  John Owen

  Lying, Support, Weight

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• If we Christians would join the Wise Men, we must close our eyes to all that glitters before the world and look rather on the despised and foolish things, help the poor, comfort the despised, and aid the neighbor in his need.

  Martin Luther

  Wise, Christian, Eye

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• There is nothing more pleasing to God, than to see a soul who patiently and serenely bears whatever crosses it is sent; this is how love is made, by putting lover and loved one on the same level. . . A soul who loves Jesus Christ desires to be treated the way Christ was treated-desires to be poor, despised and humiliated.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Jesus, Love Is, Soul

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• Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security.

  Edmund Burke

  Independence, Psychological, Anxious

  Edmund Burke (2005). “Burke, Select Works”, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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• Many people can listen to their cat more intelligently than they can listen to their own despised body. Because they attend to their pet in a cherishing way, it returns their love. Their body, however, may have to let out an earth-shattering scream in order to be heard at all.

  Marion Woodman

  Philosophy, Cat, Order

  Marion Woodman (1985). “The Pregnant Virgin: A Process of Psychological Transformation”

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• And if thy heart be straight with God then every creature shall be to thee a mirror of life and a book of holy doctrine for there is no creature so little or so despised but that sheweth and representeth the goodness of God.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Religious, Book, Heart

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• Dangers by being despised grow great.

  Edmund Burke

  Hate, Danger, Despise

  Speech on the Petition of the Unitarians, 11 May 1792, in 'The Works' vol. 5 (1812)

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• Age is rarely despised but when it is, contemptible.

  Samuel Johnson

  Hate, Age, Despise

  Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.272

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• No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.

  Seneca the Younger

  Hate, Hatred, Despise

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• Your body needs to be held and to hold, to be touched and to touch. None of these needs is to be despised, denied, or repressed. But you have to keep searching for your body's deeper need, the need for genuine love. Every time you are able to go beyond the body's superficial desires for love, you are bringing your body home and moving toward integration and unity.

  Henri Nouwen

  Love, Moving, Home

  Henri Nouwen (2010). “The Inner Voice of Love: A Journey Through Anguish to Freedom”, p.19, Image

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• I've always despised old people. I got angry at my father when he began to show signs of age.

  William Steig

  Father, People, Age

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My genes tie me to those that despised me.

  Brother Ali

  Rap, Ties, Hip Hop

  Song: DAYLIGHT, Album: The Undisputed Truth, 2007

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• The supreme rulers are hardly known by their subjects. The lesser are loved and praised. The even lesser are feared. The least are despised.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Subjects, Supreme

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• When you put a tiny and despised minority up for a popular vote, the minority usually loses.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Popular Vote, Minorities, Tiny

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• For centuries, Jews have been unjustly treated and despised. It is time they were treated with justice and humanity. God wills it and the Church wills it. St. Paul tells us that the Jews are our brothers. They should also be welcomed as friends.

  Pope Pius XII

  Brother, Justice, Humanity

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• It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to write, nothing to infer. But our wiser years still run back to the despised recollections of childhood. . . .

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Writing, Years

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.267, Modern Library

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• You can sell millions of records, be showered with all this love and admiration and still feel despised and unwanted. That's what I felt. I've made a lot of mistakes I'm not proud of.

  Scott Stapp

  Mistake, Proud, Records

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• And though my Lord hath lost his estate and been banished out of his country, yet neither despised poverty nor pinching necessity could make him break the bonds of friendship or weaken his loyal duty.

  Margaret Cavendish

  Friendship, Country, Ties

  Margaret Cavendish (2002). “Bell in Campo and The Sociable Companions”, p.206, Broadview Press

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• A soul who loves Jesus Christ desires to be treated the way Christ was treated-desires to be poor, despised, and humiliated.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Jesus, Soul, Desire

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• The very highest is barely known.
  Then comes that which people know and love,
  Then that which is feared,
  Then that which is despised.
  Who does not trust enough will not be trusted.

  Laozi

  Wisdom, People, And Love

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• A pearl, even if it is cast down into the mud, is not despised. And if one covers it with balsam, it does not
  become more valuable. But it is always valuable to its owner.
  It is the same with the Sons of God: wherever They may be, They are still of value to Their Father.

  Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov

  Love, Father, Son

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• But I despised men who accepted their fate. I shaped mine twenty times and had it broken twenty times in my hands.

  Dorothy Dunnett

  Fate, Men, Hands

  Dorothy Dunnett (1999). “The Game Of Kings: The Lymond Chronicles Book One”, p.467, Penguin UK

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