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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.
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Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by other men.
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We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition.
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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him. But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves.
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Can there be greater foolishness than the respect you pay to people collectively when you despise them individually?
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Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilized folk to despise war.
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For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most.
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From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.
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Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true before it gets to be a platitude.
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Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.
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I know the compassion of others is a relief at first. I don't despise it. But it can't quench pain, it slips through your soul as through a sieve. And when our suffering has been dragged from one pity to another, as from one mouth to another, we can no longer respect or love it.
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If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.
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If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
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If we keep on talking about masculine and feminine and following those stereotypes, then we will make women suppress and despise their so called masculine qualities and men suppress and despise their so called feminine ones, and that's where all the trouble starts.
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If you agree with a critic, you admire him or her. If you disagree, you despise them. We all feel a great need to be confirmed in our opinions.
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If you love the sacred and despise the ordinary, you are still bobbing in the ocean of delusion.
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If you value a man's regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper - and despise it.
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In refusing benefits caution must be used lest we seem to despise or to refuse them for fear of having to repay them in kind.
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