Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burden of some merry song. POPE: Satire i., Bk. Ii., Line 76. But 't was a maxim he had often tried, That right was right, and there he would abide.
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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
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Ridicule is the best test of truth.
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When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance.... Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.
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O to be self balanced for contingencies! O to confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs as trees and animals do!
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I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them
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A sign of growing old is when interviewers start asking you, What would you do differently if you had your life to live over again? I give some sort of answer because I dont wish to be rude, but I dont tell them the image that comes into my mind because they would think it vain and frivolous, and no one wants to be a subject for ridicule. I see myself as a tall, skinny Fellini, vigorously lifting weights. Thats what I would do differently. I would lift weights.
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The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.
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Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.
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Ridicule is the Burden of Genius.
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Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule
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Ridicule has historically proven itself a rickety fence for great ideas.
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The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule
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The most human thing we have to do in life is is to learn to speak our honest convictions and feelings and live with the consequences. This is the first requirment of love, and it makes us vulnerable to other people who may ridicule us. But our vulnerability is the only thing we can give to other people.
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The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity.. And some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
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Nothing has more retarded the advancement of learning than the disposition of vulgar minds to ridicule and vilify what they cannot comprehend
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One of the strongest natural proofs of the folly of hereditary right in kings is, that nature disapproves it; otherwise she would not so frequently turn it into ridicule by giving mankind an ass in place of a lion
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Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool
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Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.
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Ridicule is the language of the devil
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I have learned never to ridicule any man's opinion, however strange it may seem
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Whatever he does, Dick will do it his own way, because whatever he does, it will be the subject of ridicule.
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I'm sorry they're disbanding. The Bag Ladies have been such an institution in the fight against HIV. They set themselves up for ridicule but they overcome it.
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I think the hardest part about being a teenager is dealing with other teenagers - the criticism and the ridicule, the gossip and rumors.
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