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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, and always we are fishing up some wonderful article out of that pond; until, by and by, we begin to suspect that the biography of the one foolish person we know is, in reality, nothing less than the miniature paraphrase of the hundred volumes of the Universal History.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Writing, Reality

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.75, Courier Corporation

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• If goodness were only a theory, it were a pity it should be lost to the world. There are a number of things, the idea of which is a clear gain to the mind. Let people, for instance, rail at friendship, genius, freedom, as long as they will -the very names of these despised qualities are better than anything else that could be substituted for them, and embalm even the most envenomed satire against them.

  William Hazlitt

  Names, Ideas, Numbers

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• Charm is often despised but I can never see why. No one has it who isn't capable of genuinely liking others, at least at the actual moment of meeting and speaking. Charm is always genuine; it may be superficial but it isn't false.

  P. D. James

  May, Moments, Superficial

  P. D. James (2010). “The Children of Men”, p.26, Vintage

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• The important thing about Dada, it seems to me, is that Dadaists despised what is commonly regarded as art, but put the whole universe on the lofty throne of art.

  Hans Arp

  Art, Important, Thrones

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• one year as his wife, and id have become one of those abject, quaking women who look at their husbands when someone asks them a question. I've always despised that type, but I see how it happens now

  Mary Ann Shaffer

  Husband, Years, Wife

  Annie Barrows, Mary Ann Shaffer (2011). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.214, Dial Press

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• Tom [Collins] was a great influence on me. He really pushed me...constantly demanded rewrites. And, as much as I despised them, it was the best thing that could have happened because he just wouldn't settle for less. It had to be right, and it had to be good.

  Dean Dillon

  Writing, Influence, Settling

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• Men talk glibly enough about moonshine, as if they knew its qualities very well, and despised them; as owls might talk of sunshine,--none of your sunshine!--but this word commonly means merely something which they do not understand,--which they are abed and asleep to, however much it may be worth their while to be up and awake to it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Mean, Sunshine, Moon

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.423, Simon and Schuster

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• The creation of wealth is certainly not to be despised, but in the long run the only human activities really worthwhile are the search for knowledge, and the creation of beauty. This is beyond argument, the only point of debate is which comes first.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Running, Long, Firsts

  Arthur C. Clarke (2013). “Profiles Of The Future”, p.51, Hachette UK

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• Money has become the grand test of virtue. By this test beggars fail, and for this they are despised. If one could earn even ten pounds a week at begging, it would become a respectable profession immediately. A beggar, looked at realistically, is simply a businessman, getting his living, like other businessmen, in the way that comes to hand. He has not, more than most modem people, sold his honour; he has merely made the mistake of choosing a trade at which it is impossible to grow rich.

  George Orwell

  Mistake, Hands, People

  George Orwell (2016). “Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.404, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Are you hero enough to unite yourself to one whom you know to be suspected and despised by all around you, and identify your interests and your honor with hers?

  Anne Bronte

  Hero, Honor, Enough

  Anne Bronte (2017). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall”, p.100, Litres

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• Early to bed and early to rise makes a person dull, boring, and despised.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Funny, Health, Sleep

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• I grew up in a family that despised displays of strong emotion, rage in particular. We stewed. We sulked. When arguments did occur, they were full-scale conniptions, and we regarded them as family failings.

  Koren Zailckas

  Strong, Emotion, Argument

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• These moments of escape are not to be despised. They come too seldom.

  Virginia Woolf

  Moments

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1395, Delphi Classics

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• He lacked tenderness; he was rude; and he had more than a streak of cruelty in him; he was a thief and a liar. He stood for everything she feared and hated and despised; but she knew she could love him... This was no choice made with the mind.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Liars, Choices Made, Rude

  Daphne du Maurier (1936). “JAMAICA INN”

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• Everything I said he agreed with, which was trying, and his flute playing would make the deaf wince, but I think the real problem with Hyacinth was that he reminded me of myself. He read poetry. He flinched at loud noises. In addition to having no musical skills, he had no martial skills. He avoided any situation that might require physical effort on his part. Seeing him, I found it no wonder that my father despised me.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Father, Real, Reflection

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• I...asked why purebloods despised me so. He replied, 'What if the difference between social strata stem not from genomics or inherent xcellence or even dollars, but merely differences in knowledge? Would this not mean the whole Pyramid is built on shifting sands?... fabricants are mirrors held up to purebloods' consciences; what purebloods see reflected there sickens them. So they blame you for holding up the mirror

  David Mitchell

  Mean, Mirrors, Pyramids

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• Our duty is to rise in the bright daylight, openly, beating the drums. The cause for which we are ready to give our necks does not fear the light, and to attack the enemy by guile would not suit it. A Pole has always despised ambushes, and God forbid that he should change. We shall not fail to have enough strength to defeat our enemies if we do not fail to have the spirit of sacrifice and love.

  Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont

  Sacrifice, Light, Giving

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• I have some notions that have people conceiving of themselves as capable of changing the world. That's why, for me, the issues of self-love, self-respect and self-regard are preconditions for human agency and especially black agency, given the fact that we have been and are such a hated and despised people.

  Cornel West

  Agency, Self, Issues

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• He who helped you when you were in trouble ought not afterwards be despised by you

  Wilhelm Grimm

  Trouble, Ought

  Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm (2013). “Complete Fairy Tales”, p.5, Routledge

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• Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Art, Elements, Half

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• Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.

  Sallust

  States, Honorable, Ifs

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• But even friendship like our heroes' Exist no more; for we've outgrown All sentiments and deem men zeroes-- Except of course ourselves alone. We all take on Napoleon's features, And millions of our fellow creatures Are nothing more to us than tools... Since feelings are for freaks and fools. Eugene, of course, had keen perceptions And on the whole despised mankind, Yet wasn't, like so many, blind; And since each rule permits exceptions, He did respect a noble few, And, cold himself, gave warmth its due.

  Alexander Pushkin

  Hero, Men, Feelings

  Alexander Pushkin (1998). “Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse”, p.41, OUP Oxford

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• When the philosophers despised riches, it was because they had a mind to vindicate their own merit, and take revenge upon the injustice of fortune by vilifying those enjoyments which she had not given them.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Revenge, Philosophical, Mind

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• When asked what I'd be if I weren't a writer, I'm tempted to respond with one of father's favorite phrases, one I despised while growing up: "I hate 'what-ifs.'"

  Cate Marvin

  Growing Up, Father, Hate

  Source: www.redividerjournal.org

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• Now, there was an anchorite called Timothy in a coenobium. The abbot, having heard of a brother who was being tempted, asked Timothy about him, and the anchorite advised him to drive the brother away. Then when he had been driven away, the brother's temptation fell upon Timothy to the point where he was in danger. Then Timothy stood up before God and said, "I have sinned. Forgive me." Then a voice came which said to him, "Timothy, the only reason I have done this to you is because you despised your brother in the time of his temptation."

  Poemen

  Forgiveness, Brother, Voice

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