"Let a man then know his worth and keep things under his feet."
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"No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves."
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"Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled."
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"Great souls are always loyally submissive, reverent to what is over them: only small mean souls are otherwise."
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"We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it."
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"When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation."
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"America wants its respect."
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"I played it right because that's what you're supposed to do – play it right and with respect."
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"The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out."
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"Just as gold is burnt, cut and rubbed, Examine my words carefully and Do not accept them simply out of respect"
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"He removes the greatest ornament of friendship who takes away from it respect."
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"The severity of penalties is only a vain resource, invented by little minds in order to substitute terror for that respect which they have no means of obtaining."
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"The only ground on which a neutral State can claim respect at the hands of belligerents is, that, so far as she is concerned, their rights are protected."
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"Mediocrity cherishes rules; as for me, I hate them; I feel for them and for every restriction, corporation, caste, hierarchy, level, herd, a loathing which fills my soul, and it is in this respect perhaps that I understand martyrdom."
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"Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it."
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"If one hesitates in his path, let him not proceed. Let him respect his doubts, for doubts, too, may have some divinity in them."
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"Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve."
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"The kingly office is entitled to no respect. It was originally procured by the highwayman's methods. It remains a perpetuated crime, can never be anything but the symbol of a crime. It is no more entitled to respect than is the flag of a pirate."
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"The success of those doctrines would also subvert the Federal Constitution, change the character of the Federal Government, and destroy our rights in respect to slavery."
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"To be capable of respect is almost as rare as to be worthy of it."
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