What one approves, another scorns, And thus his nature each discloses You find the rosebush full of thorns, I find the thornbush full of roses.
What one approves, another scorns, And thus his nature each discloses You find the rosebush full of thorns, I find the thornbush full of roses.
Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.
A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.
When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.
Fly not yet 't is just the hour When pleasure, like the midnight flower That scorns the eye of vulgar light, Begins to bloom for sons of night And maids who love the moon.
Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them.
In handling men, there are three feelings that a man must not possess fear, dislike and contempt. If he is afraid of men he cannot handle them. Neither can he influence them in his favor if he dislikes or scorns them. He must neither cringe nor sneer. He must have both self-respect and respect for others.
The religious man fears, the man of honor scorns, to do an ill action.
When the world's leading democracy scorns the notion of justice for the victims of violence in its jurisdiction, it gives confidence to those who target journalists in countries where freedom hardly exists.
Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.
It cannot be too often repeated, that truth scorns the assistance of miracle
The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
He looks upon his love, and neighs unto her;
She answers him as if she knew his mind;
Being proud, as females are, to see him woo her,
She puts on outward strangeness, seems unkind,
Spurns at his love and scorns the heat he feels,
Beating his kind embracements with her heels.
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
Th' oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of despis'd love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office, and the spurns
That patient merit of th' unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin?
A blind man knows he cannot see, and is glad to be led, though it be by a dog but he that is blind in his understanding, which is the worst blindness of all, believes he sees as the best, and scorns a guide
If one swain scorns you, you will soon find another.
© 2020 Inspirational Stories
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