Above all things reverence thyself. [ Pythagoras ]
Make knowledge circle with the winds;
But let her herald, Reverence, fly
Before her to whatever sky
Bear seed of men and growth of minds. [ Alfred Tennyson ]
Reverence, first of all, the immortal gods, as prescribed by law. [ Pythagoras ]
Nature is indeed adequate to Fear, but to Reverence not adequate. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Virtue hath such charms, that even the vicious inwardly reverence it. [ Proverb ]
Those that too much reverence the ancients, are a scorn to the moderns. [ Proverb ]
He is a very ill man who retains not a secret reverence for a good man. [ Proverb ]
To fear is easy, but grievous; to reverence is difficult, but satisfactory. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Sunday is the core of our civilisation, dedicated to thought and reverence. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
He who loves goodness harbors angels, reveres reverence, and lives with God. [ Emerson ]
Such dupes are men to custom, and so prone
To reverence what is ancient, and can plead
A course of long observance for its use.
That even servitude, the worst of ills,
Because delivered down from sire to son, Is kept and guarded as a sacred thing! [ Cowper ]
The first condition of human goodness is something to love; the second, something to reverence. [ George Eliot ]
No soul is desolate as long as there is a human-being for whom it can feel trust and reverence. [ George Eliot ]
It is difficult for one who has enjoyed uninterrupted good fortune to have a due reverence for virtue. [ Cicero ]
As much virtue as there is, so much appears; as much goodness as there is, so much reverence it commands. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
There is a time when the hoary head of inveterate abuse will neither draw reverence nor obtain protection. [ Burke ]
For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves. [ Bacon ]
Esteem incites friendship, but not love; the former is the twin brother of Reverence; the latter is the child of Equality. [ Lamartine ]
But yesterday the word of Caesar might Have stood against the world; now lies he there. And none so poor to do him reverence. [ William Shakespeare ]
I have thought that in all women's deepest loves, be they ever so full of reverence, there enters sometimes much of the motherly element. [ Miss Muloch ]
There never was a great truth but it was reverenced: never a great institution, nor a great man, that did not, sooner or later, receive the reverence of mankind. [ Theodore Parker ]
I have all reverence for principles which grow out of sentiments; but as to sentiments which grow out of principles, you shall scarcely build a house of cards thereon. [ Jacobi ]
Science is teaching man to know and reverence truth, and to believe that only so far as he knows and loves it can he live worthily on earth, and vindicate the dignity of his spirit. [ Moses Harvey ]
There is so little to redeem the dry mass of follies and errors from which the materials of this life are composed that anything to love or to reverence becomes, as it were, the Sabbath for the mind. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
Not until right is founded upon reverence will it be secure; not until duty is based upon love will it be complete; not until liberty is based on eternal principles will it be full, equal, lofty, and universal. [ Henry Giles ]
Taste, if it mean anything but a paltry connoisseurship, must mean a general susceptibility to truth and nobleness; a sense to discern and a heart to love and reverence all beauty, order, goodness, wheresoever found and in whatsoever form and accompaniment. [ Carlyle ]
Nor do we accept as genuine the person not characterized by this blushing bashfulness, this youthfulness of heart, this sensibility to the sentiment of suavity and self-respect. Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds. None are truly great without this ornament. [ Alcott ]