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There is even the dignity of vice. - Antoine de Rivarol, Comte de Rivarol Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand. - George Santayana Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself. - George Santayana The dignity of man into your hands is given; Oh, keep it well, with you it sinks or lifts itself to heaven. - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller Dignity increases more easily than it begins. [Lat., Facilius crescit dignitas quam incipit.] - Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca), Epistoloe Ad Lucilium (CI) Clay and clay differs in dignity, whose dust is both alike. - William Shakespeare So man and man should be, But clay and clay differs in dignity, Whose dust is both alike. - William Shakespeare, Cymbeline (Imogen at IV, ii) Let none presume To wear an undeserved dignity. - William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice (Arragon at II, ix) Well, come, my Kate; we will unto your father's, Even in these honest mean habiliments. Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor, For 'tis the mind that makes the body rich; And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds So honor peereth in the meanest habit. - William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew (Petruchio at IV, iii) Dignity is often a veil between us and the real truth of things. - Edwin Percy Whipple It is at once the thinnest and most effective of all the coverings under which duncedom sneaks and skulks. - Edwin Percy Whipple Lord Chatham and Napoleon were ns much actors as Garrick or Talma. Now, an imposing air should always be taken as evidence of imposition. Dignity is often a veil between us and the real truth of things. - Edwin Percy Whipple True dignity abides with him alone Who, in the silent hour of inward thought, Can still suspect, and still revere himself, In lowliness of heart. - William Wordsworth, Lines left upon a Seat in a Yew-Tree Revere thyself, and yet thyself despise. - Edward Young, Night Thoughts (VI, 128) Displaying page 2 of 2 for this topic: << Prev 1 [2]
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