Quotes of Undue - somelinesforyou

“ Praise undeserved is scandal in disguise. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ It is the duty of righteous men to make war on all undeserved privilege, but one must not forget that this is a war without end. ”

- Primo Levi

“ What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless. ”

- Ovid

“ Attachment to spiritual things is... just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else. ”

- Beverly Sills

“ Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ Attachment to spiritual things is… just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else. ”

- Thomas Merton

“ An ingenuous, mind feels in unmerited praise, the bitterest reproof. ”

- Walter Savage Landor

“ Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity. ”

- Socrates

“ Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ I can't talk to a man who bears an undeserved animosity towards ferrets. ”

- Graham Chapman

“ Sometimes the most beautiful thing is precisely the one that comes unexpectedly and unearned. ”

- Anna Freud

“ In discarding the monkey and substituting man, our Father in Heaven did the monkey an undeserved injustice. ”

- Mark Twain

“ There are certain families in the world that just get an inordinate amount of tragedy. That's just what happened here. ”

- Steve Chandler

“ Her Elizabeth is so genius. It's just fabulous and, in its comedic, excessive way, there is a lot of accuracy there. ”

- Helen Mirren

“ The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt. ”

- Ayn Rand

“ The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth. ”

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

“ The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction. ”

- Plato

“ We must guard against the overreaching hand of big government trying to take away our freedom. And we must always protect the environment in a manner consistent with our values. ”

- Steve Forbes

“ We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. ”

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

“ Ask the gods nothing excessive. ”

- Aeschylus

“ Sentimentality is unearned emotion. ”

- William Somerset Maugham

“ If sweetness be excessive, it is no longer sweetness. ”

- African proverb

“ We protest against unjust criticism but we accept unarmed applause. ”

- Jose Narosky

“ Excessive fear is always powerless. ”

- Aeschylus

“ There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence. ”

- Charles Caleb Colton

“ Man endures pain as an undeserved punishment; woman accepts it as a natural heritage. ”

- Unknown

“ A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing. ”

- Alexander Hamilton

“ Lies are usually caused by undue fear of men. ”

- Hasidic Saying

“ It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what those things are. Human understanding has vulgarly occupied itself with nothing but understanding, but if it would only take the trouble to understand itself at the same time it would simply have to posit the paradox. ”

- Soren Kierkegaard

“ At its best, the sensation of writing is that of any unmerited grace. It is handed to you, but only if you look for it. You search, you break your heart, your back, your brain, and then — and only then — it is handed to you. ”

- Annie Dillard
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