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Ah, there is nothing more beautiful than the difference between the thought about sinful creatures which is natural to a holy being, and the thought about sinful creatures which is natural to a self-righteous being. The one is all contempt; the other, all pity.
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An Englishman fears contempt more than death.
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Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me.
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Christ saw much in this world to weep over, and much to pray over; but He saw nothing in it to look upon with contempt.
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Contempt is a kind of gangrene which, if it seizes one part of a character, corrupts all the rest by degrees.
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Contempt is frequently regulated by fashion.
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Contempt is not a thing to be despised
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Contempt is the only way to triumph over calumny.
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Contempt leaves a deeper scar than anger.
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Contempt naturally implies a man’s esteeming of himself greater than the person whom he contemns; he therefore that slights, that contemns an affront is properly superior to it; and he conquers an injury who conquers his resentments of it. Socrates, being kicked by an ass, did not think it a revenge proper for Socrates to kick the ass again.
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Contempt of others is the truest symptom of a base and bad heart,–while it suggests itself to the mean and the vile, and tickles there little fancy on every occasion, it never enters the great and good mind but on the strongest motives; nor is it then a welcome guest,–affording only an uneasy sensation, and bringing always with it a mixture of concern and compassion.
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Contempt putteth an edge upon anger more than the hurt itself.
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Contemptuous people are sure to be contemptible.
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Despise not any man, and do not spurn anything: for there is no man that hath not his honour, nor is there anything that hath not its place.
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Go–let thy less than woman’s hand Assume the distaff–not the brand.
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Grown all to all, from no one vice exempt, And most contemptible to shun contempt.
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He who feels contempt for any living thing hath faculties that he hath never used, and thought with him is in its infancy.
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I had rather chop this hand off at a blow And with the other fling it at thy face Than bear so low a sail to strike to thee.
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I have unlearned contempt; it is a sin that is engendered earliest in the soul, and doth beset it like a poison worm feeding on all its beauty.
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If a man sets out to hate all the miserable creatures he meets, he will not have much energy left for anything else; whereas he can despise them, one and all, with the greatest ease.
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