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• I dare not so honor my mere wishes and prayers as to put them for a moment beside your noble acts; but this know, I would rather submit to the worst of deaths, so far as pain goes, than have a single dog or cat tortured on the pretence of sparing me a twinge or two.

  Robert Browning

  Dog, Pain, Cat

  "The Complete Works of Robert Browning: The Agamemnon of Æschylus, La Saisiaz, etc".

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• I think that sexuality is only attractive when it’s natural and spontaneous. This is where a lot of them miss the boat. And then something I’d just like to spout off on. We are all born sexual creatures, thank God, but it’s a pity so many people despise and crush this natural gift. Art, real art, comes from it, everything.

  Marilyn

  Crush, Art, Real

  "When you're famous you run into human nature in a raw kind of way" by Richard Meryman, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2007.

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• Those who seem to despise half of America will never be trusted to govern any of it. Those who cherish only the country's past will not be entrusted with its future.

  David Frum

  Country, Past, America

  "David Frum’s Why Romney Lost eBook Is Spot-On" by Dan McDermott, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 9, 2012.

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• Many people despise those who spend their health, strength and money for the salvation of others, and call them mad. And yet it is they who will save many and be saved themselves.

  Sadhu Sundar Singh

  Mad, People, Christianity

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• I've sold too many books to get good reviews anymore. There's a lot of jealousy, because [reviewers] think they can write a good novel or a best-seller and get frustrated when they can't. I've learned to despise them.

  John Grisham

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• Love shouldn't make a beggar of one. I wouldn't want love if I had to beg for it, to barter or qualify it. And I should despise it if anyone ever begged for my love. Love is something that must be given -- it can't be bought with words or pity, or even reason.

  Jacqueline Susann

  Love Is, Want, Pity

  Jacqueline Susann (2016). “Valley of the Dolls: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.299, Tiger L.L.C.

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• Ah, gentle dames! it gars me greet To think how monie counsels sweet, How monie lengthened sage advices, The husband frae the wife despises.

  Robert Burns

  Sweet, Husband, Thinking

  1790 'Tam o' Shanter. A Tale'.

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• I don't despise, because no-one should live rent-free inside your head.

  Anne Robinson

  Self Improvement, Improvement, Should

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• What would you consider a good job?" Answered as follows: "A good job is one in which I don't have to work, and get paid a lot of money." When I heard that I cheered and yelled and felt that he should be given an A+, for he had perfectly articulated the American dream of those who despise knowledge. What a politician that kid would have made.

  Isaac Asimov

  Dream, Jobs, Kids

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• There are some power-abusing, corrupt monsters in our federal government that despise me because I have the audacity to speak the truth.

  Ted Nugent

  Government, Monsters, Audacity

  "Ted Nugent Calls Himself 'A Black Jew at Nazi-Klan Rally,' Stands by Obama Beheading Statement" by Jordan Zakarin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 18, 2012.

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• A conservative, I take it, is a man who despises vulgarity; but the argument which is concerned exclusively with calculations of success, and is based on blindness to the nobility of the effort, is vulgar.

  Leo Strauss

  Men, Effort, Conservative

  Leo Strauss (2012). “Jewish Philosophy and the Crisis of Modernity: Essays and Lectures in Modern Jewish Thought”, p.414, SUNY Press

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• Deny the world, defy the devil, despise the flesh, and delight yourself only in the Lord.

  Lady Jane Grey

  Devil, Delight, World

  Lady Jane Grey, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas (1825). “The Literary Remains of Lady Jane Grey: with a Memoir of Her Life. By N. H. Nicolas. L.P.”, p.42

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• I don't apologize for anything. When I make a mistake, I take the blame and go on from there. I just despise to lose, and that has taken a man of mediocre ability and made a pretty good coach out of him.

  Woody Hayes

  Mistake, Taken, Men

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• You may have enemies whom you hate, but not enemies whom you despise. You must be proud of your enemy: then the success of your enemy shall be your success too.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Hate, Enemy, May

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2003). “A Nietzsche Reader”, p.337, Penguin UK

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• When intelligent and sensible people despise knowledge in their old age, it is only because they have asked too much of it and of themselves.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Knowledge, Intelligent, People

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.74, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• To-despise the world is the way to enjoy heaven; and blessed are they who delight to converse with God by prayer.

  John Bunyan

  Prayer, Blessed, Heaven

  John Bunyan (1831). “The works of that eminent servant of Christ, John Bunyan: minister of the gospel and formerly Pastor of a Congregatin at Bedford”, p.97

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• I take it that the highest proof of Christ's power is not that He offers salvation, not that He bids you take it if you will, but that when you reject it, when you hate it, when you despise it, He has a power whereby he can change your mind, make you think differently from your former thoughts, and turn you from the error of your ways.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Hate, Thinking, Errors

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• The great cosmic illusion is a hierophany.... One is devoured by Time, not because one lives in Time, but because one believes in its reality, and therefore forgets or despises eternity.

  Mircea Eliade

  Believe, Reality, Forget

  "Images and Symbols". Book by Mircea Eliade, p. 90-91, 1952.

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• There are an awful lot of people who despise government precisely because it opened the door for common citizenship for people of all races and all natures in the United States.

  Taylor Branch

  Doors, Race, Government

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. March 22, 2013.

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• Consider the public. Never fear it nor despise it. Coax it, charm it, interest it, stimulate it, shock it now and then if you must, make it laugh, make it cry, but above all never, never, never bore the living hell out of it.

  Noel Coward

  Laughing, Theatre, Cry

  Noel Coward, Barry Day (2009). “The Essential Noël Coward Compendium: The Very Best of His Work, Life and Times”, p.73, A&C Black

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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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• Human life is but of brief duration. 'All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field. The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God shall stand forever' (Isa. 40:6, 8). Let us hold fast to the commandment that abides, and despise the unreality that passes away.

  Saint Basil

  Christian, Flower, Forever

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• Do not despise the fish because they are absolutely unable to speak or to reason, but fear lest you may be even more unreasonable than they by resisting the command of the Creator. Listen to the fish, who through their actions all but utter this word: 'We set out on this long journey for the perpetuation of our species.

  Saint Basil

  Journey, Long, May

  Saint Basil (2010). “Exegetic Homilies (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 46)”, p.112, CUA Press

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• The mind of man has no defense To equal plain, old common sense. This homely virtue don't despise, If you would be happy as well as wise.

  Don Herold

  Wise, Men, Common Sense

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• Examining the actual contents of my crying, I found a quailing sludge emotion, with a foul insecticide taste. If it was a peanut, you would spit it out. Yet I was indulging this toxic goo, giving it its head and letting it dictate my actions. People had every good reason to despise me.

  Sandra Newman

  Giving, People, Taste

  Sandra Newman (2002). “The only good thing anyone has ever done: a novel”, Vintage

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