The Undeserving Cases
When praises are thrown on me
I know that I have undeserved.
When abuses are slung at me
I feel that I have undeserved.
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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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.
quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
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Unjust attacks on public men do them more good than unmerited praise. They are hurt less by undeserved censure than by undeserved commendation. Abuse helps; often praise hurts.
quote by Rutherford B. Hayes
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Nemesis
a painful response to another's
undeserved good fortune-
envy,
the monster is taking you
to the land of
no return
it is where people
on their best apparel
burn themselves
to hell
the ashes speak
on names that must be forgotten
where can pleasure
be
at another's undeserved
success?
poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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Undeserved punishment is better than that which is deserved.
Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
quote by Alexander Pope
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I can't talk to a man who bears an undeserved animosity towards ferrets.
quote by Graham Chapman
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Don’t get moved.
Praises thrown at one in public
Are customary with little truth.
Abuses made about one in public
Are the hired men’s with little truth.
10.01.2007
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth.
quote by Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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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.
quote by William Hazlitt
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Envy, among other ingredients, has a mixture of love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good fortune.
quote by William Hazlitt
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Today we no longer regard the universe as the cause of our own undeserved troubles but perhaps, on the contrary, as the last refuge from the mismanagement of our earthly affairs.
quote by Rudolf Arnheim
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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.
quote by Boris Pasternak
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At this moment, by an undeserved stroke of fortune, I am the direct voice of the poets of my race and the indirect voice for the noble Spanish and Portuguese tongues.
quote by Gabriela Mistral
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Eternal Life, Evermore
A look of sorrow
The feel of shame
The eyes of an innocent
Tell the story of pain
An undeserved beating
A cry of helpless pain
The injustice to one
Is clear once again
A tear in my eye
A prayer for peace
A terrible deed done
Death, at the very least
My sorrow is so great
My shame consumes me
I have done wrong
Grace, is then my plea
But then, forgiveness
Condemned no more
Evil now washed away
Eternal life, evermore
The undeserved merits
Battering the poor, one grows rich.
Having grown rich, to quill the guilt
One flatters the poor with alms
And earn merits undeserved.
19.10.06
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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Grace
dry earth
shifting ever-down
to lowest ground,
dust sifting
autumn's blight,
to winter's,
longest night,
until Grace
unrequested, freely
given, undeserved
fills with unreserved life
springs, white-water
rising higher
than could ever
have been
conceived!
poem by Steven Federle
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The Angelous
Never break for they give away their wings
For the thought to fly over the horizons of the blues
Never mute embrace each soul that sings
The more they give the less they have to lose
They strip some music from their flight
They steal some glimmer from their eyesight
For the abandoned and the abundant
Each gift undeserved but never redundant
poem by Miroslava Odalovic
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