Affront Quote by Henry Home, Lord Kames Download Open image “A great mind will neither give an affront nor bear it.” — Henry Home, Lord Kames ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Affront Bears Giving Great minds Magnanimity Mind Psychology
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A negative mind and negative thoughts will never give you a positive life or positive outcome. — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
The philosopher ought never to try to avoid the duty of making up his mind. — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much,… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We part more easily with what we possess, than with our expectations of what we wish for; because expectation always goes beyond enjoyment. — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share Image
The indulgence of revenge tends to make men more savage and cruel. — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share Image
An agreeable figure and winning manner, which inspire affection without love, are always new. Beauty loses its relish, the graces never, after the longest… — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share Image
As nice as we are in love, we forgive more faults in that than in friendship. — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share Image
An infallible way to make your child miserable is to satisfy all his demands. — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share Image
An infallible way to make your child miserable is to satisfy all his demands. Passion swells by gratification; and the impossibility of satisfying every… — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share Image
The mind is never more highly gratified than in contemplating a natural landscape. — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share Image
Genius is allied to a warm and inflammable constitution; delicacy of taste, to calmness and sedateness. Hence it is common to find genius in… — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share Image
The sordid meal of the Cynics contributed neither to their tranquillity nor to their modesty. Pride went with Diogenes into his tub; and there… — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share Image
Whoever appears to have much cunning has in reality very little; being deficient in the essential article, which is, to hide cunning. — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share Image
To a zealot every one of his own sect is a saint, while the most upright of a different sect are to him children… — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share Image
Self-ruled Taiwan cannot be expected to accept such an affront to the legitimacy of its government and the self-determination of the Taiwanese people. — Todd Akin Copy Share Image
A government run by billionaires for billionaires is an affront to freedom and morality and humanity. — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
I'm achingly aware of my own limitations as both part of the human race and as an individual. I'm just, casting this out that,… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
Despite my best efforts, I'm not quite perfect. Let's just say I'm like one of those Hopi blankets where they leave a tiny flaw… — Jen Lancaster Copy Share Image
Torture anywhere is an affront to human dignity everywhere... I call on all governments to join with the United States and the community of… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The filibuster is an affront to commonly understood democratic norms, but then so is the Senate. — Hendrik Hertzberg Copy Share Image
He's never quite got the trick of conversation, tending to hear in dissenting views, however mild, a kind of affront, an invitation to mortal… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
The first and last lesson of religion is, 'The things that are seen are temporal; the things that are not seen are eternal.' It… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Any path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
