Quotes with unworthy

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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Dear to us are those who love us... but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life; they build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed, and thereby supply to us new powers out of the recesses of the spirit, and urge us to new and unattempted performances.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Don Marquis An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
    Don Marquis
    American writer (1878 - 1937)
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  • Samuel Johnson Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, ''I did not give it to the man, but to humanity.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Russell Wayne Baker Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.
    Russell Wayne Baker
    American writer (1925 - 2019)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Anna Julia Cooper Nothing natural can be wholly unworthy.
    Anna Julia Cooper
    American author, activist and sociologist (1858 - 1964)
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  • Camille Paglia Running to Mommy and Daddy on the campus grievance committee is unworthy of strong women.
    Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • John Dewey The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
    John Dewey
    American philosopher (1859 - 1952)
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  • Nelson Algren The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy -yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.
    Nelson Algren
    American writer (1909 - 1981)
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  • Edmund Burke The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • John Ruskin They are good furniture pictures, unworthy of praise, and undeserving of blame.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Confucius When you see a worthy person, endeavor to emulate him. When you see an unworthy person, then examine your inner self.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Pray. To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Pray: To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
    The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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