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The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerence. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.
For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again: neither doth God respect any person.
That long frontier fromthe Atlantic tothe Pacificoceans, guarded only by neighbourly respect and honourable obligations, is an exampleto everycountryand a pattern for the future of the world.
I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
We shall never forget the mingled feelings of awe and respect with which we used to gaze on the exterior of Newgate in our schoolboy days[the doors] looking as if they were made for the express purpose of letting people in, and never letting them out again.
O that faint word, respect ! how I disdain it!
How sick one gets of being 'good', how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make every one wretched for 24 hours.
I'm glad you like adverbsI adore them; theyare the only qualifications I really much respect.
Fine clothes are good onlyas they supply the want of other means of procuring respect.
Maxima debetur puero reverentia, si quid turpe paras. If you are planning any misdeed, never forget that a child has a first claim on your respect.
Nothing has conduced more to shake that decent respect for the living symbol of thestatethat goes by the name of royalty than the ever-recurring rattle of the money box.
What perished in France in1830 was not respect for a dynasty, but respect for anything.
It is increasingly rare for many of usto believe that people can be poor, but honest, poor but deserving of respect. Poverty is no longer blamed on anyone but the poor themselves.Contempt for the poor has become a virtue.
When the parish priest rebuked him for his celibacy, saying it would lead him into debaucheryand sin, hesaid that a man who had to be muzzled bya wife as a protection against debauchery was not worthy of the joy of innocence. After that people began to treat him with priestly respect.
His socks compelled one's attention without losing one's respect.
or we may hold them in respect and affection as fellow creepers on a commodious planet saying,'Yes you too you too are people'.
The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. They spell it so abominably that no man can teach himself what it soundslike.It isimpossible foran Englishmanto openhis mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.
It gave me a great notion of the credit of our present government and administration, to find people press as eagerly to pay moneyas they would to receive it; and, at the same time, a due respect for that body of men who have found out so pleasing an expedient for carrying on the common cause, that they have turned a tax into a diversion.
How Idid respect you whenyoudaredtospeak thetruth to me! Men don't know women, or they would be harder to them.
To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life; For who would fardels bear, till Birnam Wood do come to Dunsinane, But that the fear of something after death Murders the innocent sleep, Great nature's second course, And makes us rather sling the arrows of outrageous fortune Than fly to others that we know not of. There's the respect must give us pause: Wake Duncan with thy knocking! I would thou couldst; For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
Whenpeopledonot respect uswearesharplyoffended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself.
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