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«Error always addresses the passions and prejudices; truth scorns such mean intrigue, and only addresses the understanding and the conscience.»
«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»
«When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.»
«Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.»
Author: Horace (Poet) | Keywords: scorns, stomach
«The religious man fears, the man of honor scorns, to do an ill action»
Author: Joseph Addison (Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman) | About: Action| Keywords: scorns
«You can't reason with the heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.»
«The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much, and laugh at the inevitable.»
«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.»
«It cannot be too often repeated, that truth scorns the assistance of miracle»