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• Ethereal minstrel! pilgrim of the sky! Dost thou despise the earth where cares abound? Or, while the wings aspire, are heart and eye Both with thy nest upon the dewy ground?

  William Wordsworth

  Eye, Heart, Sky

  1825 'To a Skylark', l.1-4 (published 1827).

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• The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. They spell it so abominably that no man can teach himself what it soundslike.It isimpossible foran Englishmanto openhis mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Children, Hate, Men

  'Pygmalion' (1916) preface

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• It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk sense in languages that are living.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Writing, Language, Nonsense

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

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• There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Truth, Men

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.63

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• Men may be very learned, and yet very miserable; it is easy to be a deep geometrician, or a sublime astronomer, but very difficult to be a good man. I esteem, therefore, the traveller who instructs the heart, but despise him who only indulges the imagination. A man who leaves home to mend himself and others, is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is only a vagabond.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Country, Home, Heart

  Oliver Goldsmith (1854). “The works of Oliver Goldsmith. 2: Enquiry into the present state of polite learning; The citizen of the world”, p.106

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• The artificial noble shrinks into a dwarf before the noble of nature; and in the few instances (for there are some in all countries) in whom nature, as by a miracle, has survived in aristocracy, those men despise it.

  Thomas Paine

  Country, Men, Dwarves

  Thomas Paine (2003). “Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings of ThomasPaine”, p.196, Penguin

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• I tell you what, I don't like a hostile red skin any more than you do. And when they are hostile, I've fought 'em, hard as any man. But I never yet drew a bead on a squaw or papoose, and I despise the man who would.

  Kit Carson

  Men, Skins, Ems

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• Hatred is so lasting and stubborn, that reconciliation on a sickbed certainly forebodes death.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Hate, Hatred, Stubborn

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• Please, never despise the translator. He's the mailman of human civilization.

  Alexander Pushkin

  Civilization, Mailman, Please

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• It would be foolish to despise tradition. But with our growing self-consciousness and increasing intelligence we must begin to control tradition and assume a critical attitude toward it, if human relations are ever to change for the better.

  Albert Einstein

  Attitude, Self, Would Be

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb”, p.475, Princeton University Press

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• We cannot hate those who we despise.

  Eric Hoffer

  Hate

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• To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Knowledge, Pay, Species

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• If man reflects on the changes and transformations which follow one another like wave after wave and their rapidity, he will despise everything which is perishable.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Men, Transformation, Wave

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.102, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• He who despises painting has no love for the philosophy in nature.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Philosophy, Painting, No Love

  Leonardo (da Vinci) (1957). “Notebooks”

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• The point is that profound but contradictory ideas may exist side by side, if they are constructed from different materials and methods. and have different purposes. Each tells us something important about where we stand in the universe, and it is foolish to insist that they must despise each other.

  Neil Postman

  Ideas, Profound, Important

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• I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.

  Claude Monet

  Opinion, Critics, Presses

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• He who attempts to make others believe in means which he himself despises is a puffer; he who makes use of more means than he knows to be necessary is a quack; and he who ascribes to those means a greater efficacy than his own experience warrants is an impostor.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Believe, Mean, Deceit

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• Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them.

  Thomas Browne

  Hate, Evil, Hatred

  Sir Thomas Browne (1852). “The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Hydriotaphia. Brampton urns. A letter to a friend, upon occasion of the death of his intimate friend. Christian morals, &c. Miscellany tracts. Repertorium. Miscellanies. Domestic correspondence, journals, &c. Miscellaneous correspondence”, p.131

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• Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame.

  William Blake

  Despair, Talent, Shame

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.491, Pearson Education

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• Il y a dans les hommes plus de choses a'   admirer que de choses a'   me  priser. There are more things to admire in people than to despise.

  Albert Camus

  People, Admirer, Plus

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• Men, not children or servants, tempered and taught to the end; Cleansed of servile panic, slow to dread or despise, Humble because of knowledge, mighty by sacrifice.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Children, Humble, Sacrifice

  Rudyard Kipling (2015). “Stories and Poems”, p.488, Oxford University Press, USA

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• He could have a thousand faults, but I do not blame anyone in particular and I despise brutality with which the Nazis acted against Israelites; but the fault is not only of Hitler, but a group of high-ranked dignitaries.

  Augusto Pinochet

  Groups, Brutality, Faults

  Interview, 1989.

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• One can't write a weird story of real power without perfect psychological detachment from the human scene, and a magic prism of imagination which suffuses them and style alike with that grotesquerie and disquieting distortion characteristic of morbid vision. Only a cynic can create horror - for behind every masterpiece of the sort must reside a driving daemonic force that despises the human race and its illusions, and longs to pull them to pieces and mock them.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Real, Writing, Race

  Letter to "Weird Tales" editor Edwin Baird, printed in "Weird Tales" 3, no. 3 (March 1924); Quoted in "Lord of a Visible World: An Autobiography in Letters" edited by S. T. Joshi, (p. 122), 2000.

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• There is not unmitigated ill in the sharpest of this world's sorrows; I touch not the sore of thy guilt; but of human griefs I counsel thee, Cast off the weakness of regret, and gird thee to redeem thy loss: Thou has gained, in the furnace of affliction, self-knowledge, patience and humility, And these be as precious ore, that waiteth the skill of the coiner: Despise not the blessings of adversity, nor the gain thou hast earned so hardly, And now thou hast drained the bitter, take heed that thou lose not the sweet.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Sweet, Regret, Grief

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1849). “Tupper's Poetical Works: Proverbial Philosophy, A Thousand Lines, Hactenus”, p.14

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• Let me follow in Thy footsteps, O Jesus ! I would imitate Thee, but cannot without the aid of Thy grace! O humble and lowly Saviour, grant me the knowledge of the true Christian, and that I may willingly despise myself; let me learn the lesson so incomprehensible to the mind of man, that I must die to myself by an abandonment that shall produce true humility.

  Francois Fenelon

  Christian, Jesus, Humble

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