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Courage, the highest gift, that scorns to bend To mean devices for a sordid end. Courage--an independent spark from Heaven's bright throne, By which the… — George Farquhar
Though there is antipathy in the human heart to the gospel of Christ, yet when Christians make their good work shine, all admire them. It… — David Livingstone
We must be able to deal with ridicule and scorn, which it always seems that Buddhists receive. But we feel that it doesn't matter. God's… — Frederick Lenz
This writer, who is horribly perspicacious and vigorous, demonstrates the certainty of a great European war, and regards it with the peculiar satisfaction excited by… — George Gissing
A soul so pitiably forlorn, If such do on this earth abide, May season apathy with scorn, May turn indifference to pride; And still be… — William Wordsworth
It is more or less rude to scorn indiscriminately all kinds of praise; we ought to be proud of that which comes from honest men,… — Jean de la Bruyere
Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars. So are disgrace, defeat, exposure to immediate scorn and laughter. There is no opportunity in such… — William Hazlitt
A brave man scorns to quarrel once a day; Like Hectors in at every petty fray. — John Dryden
What I have left is from my native spring; I've still a heart that swells, in scorn of fate, And lifts me to my banks. — John Dryden
Thou breeze, That mak'st an organ of the mighty sea, Obedient to thy wilful phantasies, Provoke him not to scorn; but soft and low, As… — Hartley Coleridge
Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule. — Al Franken
The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither… — John W. Gardner
The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and… — Calvin Coolidge
If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you,… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Bad Girl of West Seattle… — Frances Farmer
A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe,… — Robert Green Ingersoll
When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism. — Robert Green Ingersoll
No matter how much we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition. — Milan Kundera
A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke. — Rudyard Kipling
Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands, and an infinite scorn in our hearts. — Benito Mussolini
The most passionately anti-Obama Republican politicians and activists consider themselves the truest and purest of conservatives, and often unleash their scorn and fury on others… — John Podhoretz
That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety… — Philip Pullman
Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt. — William Shakespeare
Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn. — George Bernard Shaw
I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them. — Baruch Spinoza

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