not accept
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He does not show humility who accuses himself (for who will not accept rebukes from himself?), but he who, being rebuked by another, does not decrease his love toward him.
He who willingly accepts chastening by affliction is not dominated by evil thoughts against his will; whereas he who does not accept affliction is taken prisoner by evil thoughts, even though he resists them.
No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of its minorities.
Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.
Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside -- from others. We do not accept it willingly.
The belly does not accept bail.