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• Do proper homage to thine idol's eyes; But no too humbly, or she will despise Thee and thy suit, though told in moving tropes: Disguise even tenderness if thou art wise.

  Lord Byron

  Wise, Art, Moving

  Lord Byron (1854). “Childe Harold's pilgrimage”, p.84

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• [Heraclitus] did not require humans or their sort of knowledge, since everything into which one may inquire he despises [as being] in contrast [to his own] inward-turning wisdom. [To him] all learning from others is a sign of nonwisdom, because the wise man focuses his vision on his own intelligence.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Wise, Men, Vision

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• The big fire has no right to despise the little spark!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Fire, Littles, Sparks

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• You can't have employment and despise employers ... No goose, no golden eggs.

  Paul Tsongas

  Eggs, Employment, Golden

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• Often our good deeds make enemies for us, and the ungrateful person despises us on two counts; for he is not only unwilling to acknowledge the gratitude he owes us: he does not want to have his benefactor as witness to his thankless behavior.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Gratitude, Two, Ungrateful

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• The main thing I despise about America now is driving on the freeways.

  Jesse Ventura

  America, Driving, Freeways

  "Former governor Jesse Ventura talks about new books ‘Marijuana Manifesto’ and ‘Shit Politicians Say,’ plus much more". Interview with Michelle Tompkins, thecelebritycafe.com. September 1, 2016.

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• Alas! There cometh the time when man will no longer give birth to any star. Alas! There cometh the time of the most despicable man, who can no longer despise himself.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Stars, Men, Giving

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2017). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA (Modern Classics Series): The Magnum Opus of the World’s Most Influential Philosopher, Revolutionary Thinker and the Author of The Antichrist, The Birth of Tragedy & Beyond Good and Evil”, p.23, e-artnow

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• We come to our own and would make friends with matter, which the ambitious chatter of the schools would persuade us to despise. We can never part with it; the mind loves its old home: as water to our thirst, so is rock, the ground, to our eyes, and hands, and feet. It is firm water: it is cold flame: what health, what affinity!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Home, School, Eye

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.451, Modern Library

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• Fortitude is the disposition of soul which enables us to despise all inconveniences and the loss of things not in our power.

  Saint Augustine

  Loss, Soul, Fortitude

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• The great poet makes us feel our own wealth, and then we think less of his compositions. His best communication to our mind is to teach us to despise all he has done.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Communication, Thinking, Mind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Essays (Annotated Edition)”, p.149, Jazzybee Verlag

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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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• I despise mystics, they fancy themselves so deep, when they aren't even superficial.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fancy, Superficial

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• Do not despise anyone: an atom shadowing.

  Pythagoras

  Atoms

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• One may like the love and despise the lover.

  George Farquhar

  May, Lovers

  George Farquhar (1709*). “The Recruiting Officer: A Comedy. ... Written by Mr. Farquhar”, p.31

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• We have produced some good walkers and saunterers, and some noted climbers; but as a staple recreation, as a daily practice, the mass of the people dislike and despise walking.

  John Burroughs

  Practice, People, Mass

  John Burroughs, Charlotte Zoë Walker (2001). “The Art of Seeing Things: Essays”, p.48, Syracuse University Press

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• I always fear dogma. I don't like anything that's dogmatic because it becomes purely religious again and I despise any form of organized religion.

  Justin Broadrick

  Religious, Dogma, Form

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The feeling persists that no one can simultaneously be a respectable writer and understand how a refrigerator works, just as no gentleman wears a brown suit in the city. Colleges may be to blame. English majors are encouraged, I know, to hate chemistry and physics, and to be proud because they are not dull and creepy and humorless and war-oriented like the engineers across the quad. And our most impressive critics have commonly been such English majors, and they are squeamish about technology to this very day. So it is natural for them to despise science fiction.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Hate, War, College

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• A good man: body serves his will and enjoys hard work, clear intellect that understands the truths of nature, full of passion for life but controlled by his will, well-developed conscience, loves beauty in art and nature, despises inferior morality, respects himself and others.

  Thomas Huxley

  Art, Hard Work, Passion

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• More sinners are cursed at not because we despise their sins but because we envy their success at sinning.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Envy, Sin, Cursed

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• Admire, exult, despise, laugh, weep for here There is such matter for all feelings: Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear.

  Lord Byron

  Men, Laughing, Feelings

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.292, Delphi Classics

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• Good housewives all the winter's rage despise, Defended by the riding-hood's disguise; Or, underneath the umbrella's oily shade, Safe through the wet on clinking pattens tread, Let Persian dames the unbrella's ribs display, To guard their beauties from the sunny ray; Or sweating slaves support the shady load, When eastern monarchs show their state abroad; Britain in winter only knows its aid, To guard from chilling showers the walking maid.

  John Gay

  Winter, Support, Maids

  John Gay (1826). “Gay's Fables and Other Poems: Cotton's Visions in Verse ; Moore's Fables for the Female Sex ; with Sketches of the Authors' Lives”, p.197

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• Never despise small beginnings, and don't belittle your own accomplishments. Remember them and use them as inspiration as you go on to the next thing. When you venture outside your comfort zone, wherever the starting point may be, it's kind of a big deal.

  Chris Guillebeau

  Inspiration, Accomplishment, Comfort

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• Men respect the silent; they despise the garrulous. - Marius

  Conn Iggulden

  Men, Silent, Marius

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• We are not wounded so deeply when betrayed by the things we hope for as when betrayed by things we try our best to despise. In such betrayal comes the dagger in the back.

  Yukio Mishima

  Betrayal, Trying, Betrayed

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• We tend to have mixed feelings about the holy. There is a sense in which we are at the same time attracted to it and repulsed by it. Something draws us toward it, while at the same time we want to run away from it. We can’t seem to decide which way we want it. Part of us yearns for the holy, while part of us despises it. We can’t live with it, and we can’t live without it.

  R. C. Sproul

  Running, Feelings, Want

  R. C. Sproul (2010). “Classic Teachings on the Nature of God”, p.35, Hendrickson Publishers

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