“ An ingenuous, mind feels in unmerited praise, the bitterest reproof. ”
- Walter Savage Landor- Copy
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“ Envy, among other ingredients, has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good fortune. ”
- William Hazlitt- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ In discarding the monkey and substituting man, our Father in Heaven did the monkey an undeserved injustice. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ In view of the meaning given to this honor in the community to which I belong, I should abstain from the undeserved prize that has been awarded to me. Do not meet my voluntary refusal with ill will. ”
- Boris Pasternak- Copy
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“ I can't talk to a man who bears an undeserved animosity towards ferrets. ”
- Graham Chapman- Copy
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“ Sometimes the most beautiful thing is precisely the one that comes unexpectedly and unearned. ”
- Anna Freud- Copy
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“ The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth. ”
- Franklin D. Roosevelt- Copy
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“ By common consent of all the nations and all ages, the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ Man endures pain as an undeserved punishment; woman accepts it as a natural heritage. ”
- Unknown- Copy
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“ The only thing we have to fear is fear itself — — nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. ”
- Franklin D. Roosevelt- Copy
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“ First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. ”
- Franklin D. Roosevelt- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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