"By indignities men come to dignities." — Francis Bacon

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• Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without… — Francis Bacon
• There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot… — Quico Canseco
• One of the greatest dignities of humankind is that each successive generation is invested in the welfare of each new… — Fred Rogers
• I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age;… — Mark Twain
• Are you conscious of the restful influence which the stars exert? To me they are the most soothing things in… — Arthur Conan Doyle
• Nothing makes us better understand what trifling things Providence thinks He bestows on men in granting them wealth, money, dignities,… — Jean de la Bruyere
• I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience. — William Shakespeare
• Without love, loyalty, desires, passion, courage, dignities, faith, beliefs and all the other ingredients that go into making the human… — Sylvester Stallone
• What is called honors and dignities, and even honor and dignity, is generally fool's gold. — Victor Hugo
• A good motivation is what is needed: compassion without dogmatism, without complicated philosophy; just understanding that others are human brothers… — Dalai Lama
• Man is certainly free, but he is responsible for this freedom before God as before men. This responsibility is inevitably… — Tariq Ramadan
• For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains… — Bible

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