#dignity

To confer dignity, forgive. To express contempt, forget. ↗

— Mason Cooley

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Relationships based on obligation lack dignity. ↗

— Wayne Dyer

#based #dignity #lack #obligation #relationships

I will for ever, at all hazards, assert the dignity, independence, and integrity of the English bar; without which, impartial justice, the most valuable part of the English constitution, can have no existence. ↗

— Thomas Erskine

#bar #constitution #dignity #english #ever

At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#books #collective #curtains #dignity #drawn

A fact must be assimilated with, or discriminated fromm, some other fact or facts, in order to be raised to the dignity of a truth, and made to convey the least knowledge to the mind. ↗

— Henry Mayhew

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When it comes to human dignity, we cannot make compromises. ↗

— Angela Merkel

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If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life. ↗

— James A. Michener

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I don't want to go on much longer, really. I think that would suggest a lack of imagination. A certain lack of dignity also. ↗

— Steven Patrick Morrissey

#certain #dignity #go #i #i think

It is impossible to forget the sense of dignity which marks the hour when one becomes a wage-earner... I felt that I had suddenly acquired value to myself, to my family, and to the world. ↗

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

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Labor wants pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful - to be treated with dignity and respect as brother and sister. ↗

— Thorstein Veblen

#brother #brother and sister #dignity #doing #doing good