#despised

A servant of God has but one Master. It ill becomes the servant to seek to be rich, and great, and honored in that world where his Lord was poor, and mean, and despised. ↗

— George Muller

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If I despised myself, it would be no compensation if everyone saluted me, and if I respect myself, it does not trouble me if others hold me lightly. ↗

— Max Nordau

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I had always loved expressionist painting, like every European. In fact I admired it all the more because these were precisely the paintings despised by my father's generation. ↗

— Georg Baselitz

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Frost isn't exactly despised but not enough people have worked out what a brilliant poet he was. ↗

— Paul Muldoon

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Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed. ↗

— Hans Magnus Enzensberger

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We must never undervalue any person. The workman loves not that his work should be despised in his presence. Now God is present everywhere, and every person is His work. ↗

— Saint Francis de Sales

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Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised. ↗

— Sallust

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What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another; and what is despised or rejected by one cultural group, may in a different environment become the cornerstone for a great edifice of strange grandeur and beauty. ↗

— Hu Shih

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When you put a tiny and despised minority up for a popular vote, the minority usually loses. ↗

— Andrew Sullivan

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We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised for a fool is covered with steel and it is often very hard to find his vulnerable part. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

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