#meanest

None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and Vertue. ↗

— Mary Astell

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To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears. ↗

— William Wordsworth

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My books are very few, but then the world is before me - a library open to all - from which poverty of purse cannot exclude me - in which the meanest and most paltry volume is sure to furnish something to amuse, if not to instruct and improve. ↗

— Joseph Howe

#before #books #cannot #exclude #few

There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed, and can't get there, is the meanest feeling in the world. ↗

— E. W. Howe

#feeling #get #meanest #world #you