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Quote by Washington Irving
There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dread

There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble. – Washington Irving

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There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming griefand unspeakable love. – Washington Irving

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Washington Irving
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A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother’s love endures through all. – Washington Irving

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Mothers
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True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn. – Philip Massinger

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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity. – E. M. Forster

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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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Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart. – Luigi Pirandello

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