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Letter "S" » scorn
«Strange and predatory and truly dangerous, car thieves and muggers -- they seem to jeopardize all our cherished concepts, even our self-esteem, our property rights, our powers of love, our laws and pleasures. The only relationship we seem to have with them is scorn or bewilderment, but they belong somewhere on the dark prairies of a country that is in the throes of self-discovery.»
Author: John Cheever
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Keywords:
bewilderment,
cherished,
concepts,
jeopardize,
jeopardized,
mugger,
muggers,
prairie,
prairies,
predatory,
property rights,
scorn,
self-discovery,
self esteem,
thieves,
throe,
throes
«One kind of man I impatiently scorn is the kind that looks bored if I mention Ibsen or ceramics or Aztec civilization but is interested instantly, alertly, if I mention my garters»
Author: Mary MacLane
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Keywords:
alertly,
Aztec,
bored,
ceramic,
ceramics,
garter,
garters,
Ibsen,
impatiently,
instantly,
mention,
scorn
«Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.»
«Scorn also to depress thy competitor by any dishonest or unworthy method; strive to raise thyself above him only by excelling him; so shall thy contest for superiority be crowned with honour, if not with success.»
Author: Akhenaton
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Keywords:
competitor,
contest,
crowned,
depress,
dishonest,
excelling,
honour,
scorn,
superiority,
unworthy,
with success
«See! those fiendish lineaments graven on the darkness, the writhed lip of scorn, the mockery of that living eye, the pointed finger, touching the sore place in your heart! Do you remember any act of enormous folly, at which you would blush, even in the remotest cavern of the earth? Then recognize your Shame.»
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Novelist,
Writer)
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Keywords:
blush,
cavern,
caverns,
fiendish,
graven,
lip,
mockery,
pointed,
remotest,
scorn,
sore,
touching,
writhe,
writhed,
writhes,
writhing
«Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.»
«There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.»
«Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.»
«Oh, ye infidel philosophers, teach me how to find joy in sorrow, strength in weakness, and light in darkest days; how to bear buffeting and scorn; how to welcome death, and to pass through it into the sphere of life, and this not for me only, but for»
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
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Keywords:
buffet,
buffeted,
buffeting,
buffets,
darkest,
Darkest Days,
infidel,
infidels,
pass through,
scorn,
sphere,
The Infidels
«The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn»
Author: Martin Luther
(
Priest,
Scholar)
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Keywords:
bear,
devil,
drive,
drive out,
flout,
flouts,
jeer,
jeered,
jeering,
jeers,
scorn,
scorning,
scripture,
texts,
the Devil,
yield,
yield up