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«One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this.»
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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covered, covered up, cover for, cover up, one-man, On the Cover, ounce, ounces, scars, scorned, scorning, strove, The Last Man, unreachable
«Heav'n has no rage, like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd»
«Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.»
«What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water? / Which goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, and walketh with wicked men.»
«Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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Silence
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expression, scorn, scorning
«There is no art in turning a goddess into a witch, a virgin into a whore, but the opposite operation, to give dignity to what has been scorned, to make the degraded disireable, that calls for art or for character.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
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calls, degraded, dignity, goddess, in operation, operation, opposite, scorned, scorning, The Witches, turning, Virgin, whore, witch, witching
«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»
«And both of us, scorning parochial ways, / Had lived like the wives in the patriarchs' days.»
Author: Thomas Hardy
(Novelist, Poet)
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Both of Us, parochial, patriarch, patriarchs, scorning
«A pinch of praise is worth a pound of scorn. A dash of encouragement is more helpful than a dipper of pessimism. A cup of kindness is better than a cupboard of criticism.»
«Be bloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to scorn the power of man.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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being bold, bloodied, bloodiest, bloody, bold, bolder, boldest, resolute, scorn, scorning
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