"There is no room in the universe for……" — James Martineau
"There is no room in the universe for the least contempt or pride; but only for a gentle and a reverent heart."
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16 Quotes by James Martineau
James Martineau has 16 quotes on this site.
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I bow in reverence before the emotions of every melted heart....The more intense the delight in their presence, the more…
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Religion is the belief in an ever-living God, that is, in a Divine Mind and Will ruling the Universe and…
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The mere lapse of years is not life. To eat, to drink, and sleep; to be exposed to darkness and…
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All beneficent and creative power gathers itself together in silence, ere it issues out in might.
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Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.
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The scepticism which men affect towards their higher inspirations is often not an honest doubt, but a guilty negligence, and…
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Every man's highest, nameless though it be, is his 'living God'.
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All that is noble in the world's past history, and especially the minds of the great and the good, are…
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The incarnation is true, not of Christ exclusively, but of Man universally, and God everlastingly.
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The pinafore of the child will be more than a match for the frock of the bishop and the surplice…
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Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.
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God has so arranged the chronometry of our spirits, that there shall be thousands of silent moments between the striking…
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More Contempt Quotes
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one of 515 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the…
— Carl Bernstein
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The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics.
— Jello Biafra
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Familiarity breeds contempt.
— Aesop
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I've always thought if we don't want to enforce laws on the books, we should remove them from the books.…
— Michael Bloomberg
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It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others,…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law;…
— Louis D. Brandeis
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True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love.…
— Thomas Carlyle
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Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.
— Cesar Chavez
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There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten…
— Lord Chesterfield
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If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days…
— Lord Chesterfield
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No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.
— Winston Churchill
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