Life hath more awe than death.[ Bailey ]
The prince, who kept the world in awe.
The judge, whose dictate fix'd the law.
The rich, the poor, the great, the small,
Are levelled: death confounds them all.[ Gay ]
I cannot tell what you and other men
Think of this life; but for my single self,
I had as lief not be as live to be
In awe of such a thing as I myself.[ William Shakespeare ]
One to destroy is murder by the law.
And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe;
To murder thousands takes a specious name.
War's glorious art, and gives immortal fame.[ Young ]
Nobody can stand in awe of himself too much.[ Proverb ]
The good need fear no law; it is his safety, and the bad man's awe.[ Ben Jonson ]
Oaths were not purposed more than law to keep the good and just in awe.[ Samuel Butler ]
Character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and grey hairs.[ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Men sunk in the greatest darkness imaginable retain some sense and awe of the Deity.[ Tillotson ]
Conscience is but a word that cowards use. Devised at first to keep the strong in awe.[ William Shakespeare ]
Be fearful only of thyself, and stand in awe of none more than of thine own conscience.[ Thomas Fuller ]
To be loved, we should merit but little esteem; all superiority attracts awe and aversion.[ Helvetius ]
Misers, as death approaches, are heaping up a chest of reasons to stand in more awe of him.[ Shenstone ]
A heavenly awe overshadowed and encompassed, as it still ought, and must, all earthly business whatsoever.[ Carlyle ]
Nothing keeps me in such awe as perfect beauty; now, there is something consoling and encouraging in ugliness.[ Sheridan ]
O form! how oft dost thou with thy case, thy habit, wrench awe from fools, and tie the wiser souls to thy false seeming![ William Shakespeare ]
O place! O form, how often dost thou with thy case, thy habit, wrench awe from fools, and tie the wiser souls to thy false seeming![ William Shakespeare ]
Great attention to what is said and sweetness of speech, a great degree of kindness and the appearance of awe, are always tokens of a man's attachment.[ Hitopadesa ]
A nation's character is the sum of its splendid deeds; they constitute one common patrimony, the nation's inheritance. They awe foreign powers; they arouse and animate our own people.[ Henry Clay ]
The deep mellow voice of the waves of the mighty deep is full of mystery and awe; and the ocean moaning over the dead it holds in its bosom, lulls them to unbroken slumbers in the chambers of its unfathomable depths.[ Haliburton ]
The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God. Make all men equal today, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal tomorrow.[ Anthony Trollope ]
This is that eloquence the ancients represented as lightning, bearing down every opposer; this the power which has turned whole assemblies into astonishment, admiration and awe that is described by the torrent, the flame, and every other instance of irresistible impetuosity.[ Goldsmith ]