Spurn Quotes
27 quotes by 24 authors
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But in the present day men cast off gentleness, and are all for being bold; they spurn frugality, and retain only extravagance; they discard humility,…
— Laozi
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Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our persons, but they are helpless against our prayers.
— J. Sidlow Baxter
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Spurn not the nobly born with love affected; nor treat with virtuous scorn the well connected.
— W. S. Gilbert
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I may be a lunatic, but then, wasn't my lunacy caused by a monster that lurks at the bottom of every human mind? Those who…
— RyÅ«nosuke Akutagawa
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The evident character of this defective cognition of which mathematics is proud, and on which it plumes itself before philosophy, rests solely on the poverty…
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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To be free from convention is not to spurn it but not to be deceived by it.
— Alan Watts
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People may resist our advice, spurn our appeals, reject our suggestions, refuse our help, but they are powerless against our prayers.
— Jill Briscoe
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Entrepreneurial knowledge has little to do with certified expertise, advanced degrees, or the learning of establishment schools. The fashionably educated and cultivated spurn the kind…
— George Gilder
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God's love never ceases. Never. Though we spurn him. Ignore him. Reject him. Despise him. Disobey him. He will not change. Our evil cannot diminish…
— Max Lucado
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I want nothing new, if I can have but a tithe of the old secured to me. I will spurn all wealth beside. Think of…
— Henry David Thoreau
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How important the concept of God is, and how instead of valuing what has been given us, we with light hearts spurn it because of…
— Leo Tolstoy
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Google and Facebook, each in their own way, have revolutionized the delivery of advertising based on search and social networking, creating a sort of anti-Spam:…
— Marcus Buckingham
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All men hate the wretched; how, then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things! Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Prostrate, see Thy cross I grasp,And Thy pierced feet I clasp;Gracious Jesus, spurn me not;On me, with compassion fraught,Let Thy glances fall.Thy cross of agony,My…
— Bernard of Clairvaux
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Mother love is the most powerful, the most irrational force on earth, even more powerful than sexual love. However, one does lead to the other,…
— Rita Mae Brown
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If the crowns of all the kingdoms of the empire were laid down at my feet in exchange for my books and my love of…
— Francois Fenelon
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Accounts are not quite settled between us," said she, with a passion that equaled my own. "I can love, and I can hate. You had…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear His hopes 'bove wisdom, grace and fear: And you all know, security Is mortals' chiefest enemy.
— William Shakespeare
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Life is sometimes novel-shaped, mocking the efforts of those authors who, in an effort to make their novels life-shaped, spurn the easy symmetry and cheap…
— Stephen Fry
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Great love, you believe, carries the seeds of great sorrow. Well, perhaps you are right. Perhaps the wise spurn one to remain safe from the…
— Anne Fortier
Who Wrote These Spurn Quotes
24 authors contributed a total of 27 Spurn Quotes as follows: