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Letter "C" » contempt
«Sin is the dare of God's justice, the rape of His mercy, the jeer of His patience, the slight of His power, and the contempt of His love»
«Our government teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.»
Author: Louis D. Brandeis
| About:
Anarchy,
Government,
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
anarchy, breeds, contempt, invites, lawbreaker, lawbreakers, teaches
«No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.»
«She even had a kind of special position among men: she was an exception, she fitted none of the categories they commonly used when talking about girls; she wasn't a cock-teaser, a cold fish, an easy lay or a sneaky bitch; she was an honorary person. She had grown to share their contempt for most women.»
«Man is so much more sensitive to the contempt of others than to contempt for himself.»
«Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail / Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt,/ Dispraise, or blame; nothing but well and fair,/ And what may quiet us in a death so noble.»
«Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has; it never comes to the aid of spiritual things, but - more frequently than not - struggles against the divine Word, treating with contempt all that emanates from God»
«It is better to have no opinion of God at all than such as one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only unbelief - the other is contempt»
Author: Plutarch
(Author, Biographer)
| About:
Religion
| Keywords:
contempt, such as, unbelief, unworthy, unworthy of
«Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| About:
Poetry
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Anything Else, contempt, for anything, holds, universal
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