“ One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
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“ Where doth the world thrust forth a vanity — So it be new, there's no respect how vile — That is not quickly buzzed into his ears? ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Man always worships something; always he sees the Infinite shadowed forth in something finite; and indeed can and must so see it in any finite thing, once tempt him well to fix his eyes thereon. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
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“ Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration. ”
- William Hazlitt- Copy
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“ Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not. ”
- Nathaniel Hawthorne- Copy
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“ There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age. I missed it coming and going. ”
- J. B. Priestley- Copy
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“ And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears. ”
- Joaquin Miller- Copy
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“ The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music; they should be taught to love it instead. ”
- Igor Stravinsky- Copy
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“ Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return. ”
- Nicolas Boileau- Copy
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“ I have a lot of memories, but I don't go into capitalizing on that. Something's got to be my own. I'm not doing the record to sit here and broadcast my memories of my father. ”
- Lisa Marie Presley- Copy
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“ A woman of honor should not suspect another of things she would not do herself. ”
- Marguerite de Valois- Copy
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“ I don't try to imagine a personal god; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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“ Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
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“ One to destroy, is murder by the law; and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame. ”
- Edward Young- Copy
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“ The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof. ”
- Richard Bach- Copy
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“ Yet, if he would, man cannot live all to this world. If not religious, he will be superstitious. If he worship not the true God, he will have his idols. ”
- Theodore Parker- Copy
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“ Let none admire that riches grow in hell; that soil may best deserve the precious bane. ”
- John Milton- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power. ”
- Lord Alfred Tennyson- Copy
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