"Do no dishonour to the earth least you……" — Henry Beston
"Do no dishonour to the earth least you dishonour the spirit of man."
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36 Quotes by Henry Beston
Henry Beston has 36 quotes on this site.
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The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood,…
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If gardeners will forget a little the phrase, "watering the plants" and think of watering as a matter of "watering…
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A garden is the mirror of a mind. It is a place of life, a mystery of green moving to…
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Poor body, time and the long years were the first tailors to teach you the merciless use of clothes. Though…
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Into every empty corner, into all forgotten things and nooks, nature struggles to pour life, pouring life into the dead,…
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When the Pleiades and the wind in the grass are no longer a part of the human spirit, a part…
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Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from…
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Do no dishonor to the earth lest you dishonor the spirit of man.
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Animals are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life…
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If there is one thing clear about the centuries dominated by the factory and the wheel, it is that although…
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As well expect Nature to answer your human values as to come into your house and sit in a chair.
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It is only when we are aware of the earth and of the earth as poetry that we truly live.
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More Dishonour Quotes
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one of 16 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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So far as we are concerned, there is not one word in the statements that I have made in this…
— Arundhati Roy
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Those who try to make room for sex as mere casual enjoyment pay the penalty: they become shallow. At any…
— G. E. M. Anscombe
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Indeed, I was so afraid to dishonour my friends and family by my indiscreet actions, that I rather chose to…
— Margaret Cavendish
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I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. I would…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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His honour rooted in dishonour stood, And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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If... God highly exalted Christ because He humbled Himself, suffered dishonour, was tempted and endured a shameful cross and death…
— Gregory Palamas
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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Ridicule dishonours more than dishonour.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Yet living and dying, honour and dishonour, pain and pleasure, riches and poverty, and so forth are equally the lot…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Now, we are agreed, I and my destinies. The total world, Above, below, whate'er is seen or known, And all…
— Hartley Coleridge
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The Japanese had a very strong belief in Bushido, death before dishonour. They were fighting for their country; they were…
— Steven Spielberg
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In spite of all the dishonour, the broken standards, the broken lives, The broken faith in one place or another,…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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