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Tag Name "Meanly" (28)

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Where is the reward of virtue? and what recompense has nature provided for such important sacrifices as those of life and fortune, which we must often make to it? O sons of earth! Are ye ignorant of the value of this celestial mistress? And do ye meanly inquire for her portion, when ye observe her genuine beauty?
David Hume
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Remember to say what you mean, but don't say it meanly.
Elizabeth George
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How meanly and grossly do we deal with nature!
Henry David Thoreau
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While we're talking, time will have meanly run on... pick today's fruits, not relying on the future in the slightest.
Horace
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A party spirit betrays the greatest men to act as meanly as the vulgar herd.
Jean de la Bruyere
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A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them but he who has any respect for himself seems to have renounced the right of thinking meanly of others.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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It is better to believe in men too rashly, and regret, than believe too meanly. Men could be more than they are, if they would try for it. He has shown them that.
Mary Renault
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It wasn't his, it wasn't my fault, we both had nothing except patience, but Death has none. I saw him come (how meanly!) and I watched him as he took and took: none of it I could claim as mine.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.
Samuel Johnson
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Books, says Lord Bacon, can never teach us the use of books the student must learn by commerce with mankind to reduce his speculations to practice. No man should think so highly of himself as to think he can receive but little light from books no one so meanly, as to believe he can discover nothing but what is to be learned from them.
Samuel Johnson
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Humility is not thinking meanly of oneself, but rather it means not thinking of oneself at all.
Vance Havner
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He who meanly admires a mean thing is a snob--perhaps that is a safe definition of the character.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.
Abraham Lincoln
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As we keep or break the Sabbath Day we nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope by which man rises.
Abraham Lincoln
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The true felicity of a lover of books is the luxurious turning of page by page, the surrender, not meanly abject, but deliberate and cautious, with your wits about you, as you deliver yourself into the keeping of the book. This I call reading.
Edith Wharton
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Say and do what you mean, but never say and do it meanly.
Harvey Mackay
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I am never rich in money, and I am never meanly poor.
Henry David Thoreau
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Dark-green and gemm'd with flowers of snow, With close uncrowded branches spread Not proudly high, nor meanly low, A graceful myrtle rear'd its head.
James Montgomery
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Who gives a trifle meanly is meaner than the trifle.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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It was the winter wild, While the Heaven-born child, All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies.
John Milton
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If you love yourself meanly, childishly, timidly, even so shall you love your neighbor.
Maurice Maeterlinck
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True humility is intelligent self-respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us mindful of the nobility God meant us to have. Yet it makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.
Ralph Washington Sockman
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Few have abilities so much needed by the rest of the world as to be caressed on their own terms and he that will not condescend to recommend himself by external embellishments must submit to the fate of just sentiment meanly expressed, and be ridiculed and forgotten before he is understood.
Samuel Johnson
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The woman who thinks meanly of herself is any man's purchase.
Samuel Richardson
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