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Dignity Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Advice, as it always gives a temporary appearance of superiority, can never be very grateful, even when it is most necessary or most judicious. But…
- Without good humour, learning and bravery can only confer that superiority which swells the heart of the lion in the desert, where he roars without…
- If we estimate dignity by immediate usefulness, agriculture is undoubtedly the first and noblest science.
- To see helpless infancy stretching out her hands, and pouring out her cries in testimony of dependence, without any powers to alarm jealousy, or any…
- Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in…
- As all error is meanness, it is incumbent on every man who consults his own dignity, to retract it as soon as he discovers it
More Dignity Quotes
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle
- You go to London, you see a TV set in every cell and the sign up that all the officers must treat… — Joe Arpaio
- There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create. — Charles Baudelaire
- If Republicans are aiming for the heart, for compassion, the last thing they should do is abandon the sanctity of life. Instead,… — Gary Bauer
- [Our goal] is to help revive America's traditional values: faith, family, neighborhood, work and freedom. Government has no business enforcing these values… — Ronald Reagan
- To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality… — Mikhail Bakunin
- Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics. — Jane Addams