Dignity

(173 votes)   Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.

George Santayana
1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet

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(137 votes)   At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.

Edward M. Forster
1879-1970, British Novelist, Essayist

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(93 votes)   Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.

James Thurber
1894-1961, American Humorist, Illustrator

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(92 votes)   Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance.

Elbert Hubbard
1859-1915, American Author, Publisher

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(80 votes)   When boasting ends, there dignity begins.

Young

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(77 votes)   Human rights rest on human dignity. The dignity of man is an ideal worth fighting for and worth dying for.

Robert Maynard

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(63 votes)   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
1907-, American Writer

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