#despise

All strange and terrible events are welcome, but comforts we despise. ↗

— Cleopatra

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I despise simplicity. It is the negation of all that is beautiful. ↗

— Norman Hartnell

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O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand. ↗

— William Penn

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People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

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It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer despises the thing that enslaved him. ↗

— Jim Bishop

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For generations, even many otherwise decent white Southerners learned to despise black people. ↗

— Linda Chavez

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The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

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When an individual, a sect, a clique or a nation hates and despises another individual, sect, clique or nation, he or they simply do not know the objects of their hatred. Ignorance is at the bottom of it. ↗

— Paul Harris

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The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered. ↗

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

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