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• The superior man, even when he is not moving, has a feeling of reverence, and while he speaks not, he has the feeling of truthfulness.

  Confucius

  Truth, Moving, Men

  Confucius, Mencius (1861). “The Chinese Classics”, p.296

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• The greatest reverence is due to a child! If you are contemplating a disgraceful act, despise not your child's tender years.

  Juvenal

  Children, Years, Parent

  Juvenal (1871). “The satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, and Lucilius ...”, p.162

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• Our reverence for workaholism has produced corporate leaders who believe they don't need sleep, and neither should anyone else.

  Stanley Coren

  Believe, Sleep, Leader

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• In every true searcher of Nature there is a kind of religious reverence, for he finds it impossible to imagine that he is the first to have thought out the exceedingly delicate threads that connect his perceptions

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Perception, Firsts

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.322, Princeton University Press

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• See that ye all follow the bishop, even as Jesus Christ does the Father, and the presbytery as ye would the apostles; and reverence the deacons, as being the institution of God. Let no man do anything connected with the Church without the bishop. [] Wherever the bishop shall appear, there let the multitude [of the people] also be; even as, wherever Jesus Christ is, there is the Catholic Church. [] Whatsoever [the bishop] shall approve of, that is also pleasing to God, so that everything that is done may be secure and valid.

  Ignatius of Antioch

  Jesus, Father, Men

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• Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.

  Havelock Ellis

  Sex, Lying, Roots

  Havelock Ellis (2012). “Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty, The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity, Auto-Erotism”, p.11, tredition

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• Proper respect to others is the most prudent rule of directing the measure of reverence due to ourselves.

  Norm MacDonald

  Respect, Prudent, Dues

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• Reverence makes it possible to be whole, though ignorant. It is the wholeness of understanding.

  Wendell Berry

  Respect, Understanding, Ignorant

  Wendell Berry (2011). “Standing by Words”, p.90, Counterpoint Press

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• A discipline I have observed is an attitude of love and reverence to people.

  Bessie Head

  Attitude, Discipline, People

  Bessie Head (1990). “A Woman Alone: Autobiographical Writings”, African Writers Series

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• Competition of praise inclineth to a reverence of antiquity. For men contend with the living, not with the dead.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Men, Competition, Praise

  Thomas Hobbes (2002). “Leviathan”, p.76, Broadview Press

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• Of all things, none does not revere the Way and honor virtue. Reverence of the Way and honoring virtue were not demanded of them, but it is in their nature.

  Laozi

  Honor, Taoism, Doe

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• Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good fortune.

  Owain Glyndwr

  Cousin, Fear, Long

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• The idea of vegetarianism is of immense value; it is based on great reverence for life.

  Rajneesh

  Vegetarianism, Ideas, Reverence For Life

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• For spiritual companions I have had the many artists who have relied on nature to help shape their imagination. And their most elaborate equipment was a deep reverence for the world through which they passed. Photographers share something with these artists. We seek only to see and to describe with our own voices, and, though we are seldom heard as soloists, we cannot photograph the world in any other way.

  Sam Abell

  Photography, Spiritual, Artist

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• Until we consider animal life to be worthy of the consideration and reverence we bestow upon old books and pictures and historic monuments, there will always be the animal refugee living a precarious life on the edge of extermination, dependent for existence on the charity of a few human beings.

  Gerald Durrell

  Life, Book, Science

  Gerald Durrell (1970). “Encounters with Animals”

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• There is a passion of reverence, almost of pity, mingling with the love of an honest man for a pure girl, which makes it the most exquisite, perhaps, of all human sentiments.

  Lucas Malet

  Love, Girl, Honesty

  Lucas Malet (1885). “Colonel Enderby's Wife: A Novel”

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• In every seed to breathe a flower, In every drop of dew To reverence a cloister star Within the distant blue; To wait the promise of the how, Despite the cloud between, Is Faith-the fervid evidence Of loneliness unseen.

  John B. Tabb

  Faith, Stars, Loneliness

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• There are very few real teachers. Teaching is not a job; it is a vocation. To be a great one many qualities must be combined: love of truth, knowledge, reverence, loving concern for one's students, clarity and patience.

  Alice von Hildebrand

  Faith, Teacher, Jobs

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• He who loves goodness harbors angels, reveres reverence, and lives with God.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Angel, Goodness, Harbors

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.73

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• Nothing has a greater tendency to lessen the reverence which mankind ought to have for the Supreme Being, than a careless repetition of his name upon every trifling occasion . . . . To prevent this profanation, such passages are selected from scripture, as contain some important precepts of morality and religion, in which that sacred name is seldom mentioned. Let sacred things be appropriated to sacred purposes.

  Noah Webster

  Names, Religion, Important

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• Wise politicians will be cautious about fettering the government with restrictions that cannot be observed, because they know that every break of the fundamental laws, though dictated by necessity, impairs that sacred reverence which ought to be maintained in the breast of rulers towards the constitution of a country.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Wise, Country, Government

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• Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

  Norman Douglas

  Happiness, Laughter, Giving

  Norman Douglas (1982). “South Wind”, p.164, Courier Corporation

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