William Hazlitt Quotes About Dignity
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No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness.
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The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts.
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Perhaps propriety is as near a word as any to denote the manners of the gentleman; elegance is necessary to the fine gentleman; dignity is proper to noblemen; and majesty to kings.
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The greatest reverses of fortune are the most easily borne from a sort of dignity belonging to them.
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A King (as such) is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own.
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...greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself.
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A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.
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