Indirect Contempt

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    Long as I have lived, and many blasphemers as I have heard and seen, I have never yet heard or witnessed any direct and conscious blasphemy or irreverence; but of indirect and habitual, enough. Where is the man who is guilty of direct and personal insolence to Him that made him?
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    Be great, carve deep your heel-marks.
    The states of the next age will no doubt remember you, and edge
    their love of freedom with contempt of luxury.
    Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962)