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Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh. - Martin Farquhar Tupper

Do I live as carelessly and worldly as unbelievers while professing to be a follower of Jesus? If so, I am exposing Christianity to ridicule and leading people to speak evil of the holy name by which I am called. - Charles Spurgeon

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. - Frederick Douglass

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. - Thomas Aquinas

I think the hardest part about being a teenager is dealing with other teenagers - the criticism and the ridicule, the gossip and rumors. - Beverley Mitchell

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. - William Blake

Don't give up or give in in the face of patronising ridicule, amused disdain, or being ignored. - Meryl Streep

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities. - Oscar Wilde

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