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Lowly, with a broken neck, The crocus lays her cheek to mire. -- George Meredith
Lowly, unpurposeful, and random as they appear, sidewalk contacts are the small change from which a city's wealth of public life must grow. -- Jane Jacobs
You have to remember that what we're dealing with here are Sumerian gallu demons. The next to the lowest form of demon on the demon food chain. They're simple demons really. Lowly. You know"morons. (Jaden) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly. -- William Wordsworth
Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success. -- Ambrose Bierce
True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I've always been an actor, a lowly actor without power, so I've never been corrupted. I've never even directed. -- Laura Fraser
Theater publicly reveals the human condition through appealing to both intellect and emotion. Architecture, whether lowly or exalted, can do the same. -- Hugh Hardy
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The message is not so much that the worms will inherit the Earth, but that all things play a role in nature, even the lowly worm. -- Gary Larson
Were I as base as is the lowly plain, And you, my Love, as high as heaven above, Yet should the thoughts of me, your humble swain,. -- Joshua Sylvester
If someone thinks I'm posh, it just shows how lowly they are. Some people think I went to Eton. I'm far too stupid to get into Eton. -- Sebastian Horsley
We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin. -- Charles Darwin
Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing. -- Kenneth Grahame
No man made great by death offers more hope to lowly pride than does Abraham Lincoln; for while living he was himself so simple as often to be dubbed a fool. -- Thomas Vernor Smith
Back in the 1980s, when I was a lowly editorial assistant by day and trying to be a novelist by night, no god reigned so supreme as the god of literary prose. -- Jean Hanff Korelitz
Now, we occupy a lowly position, both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere, and the Almighty is Most High not in space, but with respect to absolute existence, greatness and power. -- Maimonides
Welcome, wild harbinger of spring! To this small nook of earth; Feeling and fancy fondly cling, Round thoughts which owe their birth, To thee, and to the humble spot, Where chance has fixed thy lowly lot. -- Bernard Barton
Rest assured that whatever station of life we are placed, princely or lowly, it contains the lessons and experiences necessary at the moment for our evolution, and gives us the best advantage for the development of ourselves. -- Edward Bach
I was brought up in the north of Scotland, and where I lived was so lowly populated, it was used as a low-flying area by the Air Force, so lots of exciting aircraft used to fly over my village. -- David Mackay
The physical ego, the active consciousness in man, should uplift its body-identified self into unity with the soul, its true nature; it should not allow itself to remain mired in the lowly delusive strata of the senses and material entanglement. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
Ideally, content should be shared, mixed, mashed, and reposted - it wants to flow through the Internet like water. This was the point of RSS, after all - a technology that has actually been declared dead more often than the lowly display banner. -- John Battelle
Even someone as lowly as an assistant U.S. attorney has to undergo a background check, and you're asked a series of very invasive questions, and you're expected to tell the truth and they're under penalty of perjury. And you're asked those questions so you can't be blackmailed or extorted. -- Trey Gowdy
If you are going into any manufacturing establishment, don't go there by reason of any influence you may have. Start upon your own merits, and start in some lowly position, no matter what it is. Be a laborer, if you will. I don't know but that is the best way to start. -- Charles M. Schwab
What an encouraging thought that Jesus - our beloved Husband - can find comfort in our lowly feeble gifts! Can this be, for it seems far too good to be true? May we then be willing to endure trials or even death itself if through these hardships we are assisted in bringing gladness to Immanuel's heart. -- Charles Spurgeon
Circumstances have rarely favored great men. A lowly beginning is no bar to a great career. The boy who works his way through college may have a hard time of it, but he will learn how to work his way in life, and will usually take higher rank in school and in after life than his classmate who is the son of a millionaire. -- Orison Swett Marden
Most of the things that really matter require faith. 'How do I know that my wife loves me?' 'How do I know that Mozart's 'Jupiter Symphony' is sublime and beautiful?' There are all sorts of things which come at a more lowly level than that - 'How do I know that two plus two equals four?' There are different layers, different types of knowing. -- N. T. Wright
Highly fed and lowly taught. -- William Shakespeare
I accept refreshment at any hands, however lowly. -- W.S. Gilbert
no job, no matter how lowly, is truly 'unskilled. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
The 'lowly' finite is MUCH more beautiful than any 'infinite' -- Doron Zeilberger
You, God, made yourself lowly and small to make us great! -- St. Catherine of Siena
The gentle race of flowers Are lying in their lowly beds. -- William C. Bryant
Be lowly wise: Think only what concerns thee and thy being. -- John Milton
The mind makes the nobleman, and uplifts the lowly to high degree. -- Seneca the Younger
Though I have looked everywhere / I can find nothing lowly / in the universe. -- A. R. Ammons
Things can be low on the food chain, but that doesn't mean they're lowly... -- Gary Larson
True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
We're not lowly sinners, we're not worthless beings. We are something jewel-like and beautiful. -- Tenzin Palmo
It would be a lowly art that allowed itself to be understood all at once. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Consider how Jesus came from a position of glory and consistently reached out to the lowly. -- Alistair Begg
God loves the lowly. When we live humbly, he takes our small efforts and creates great things. -- Pope Francis
The message from the hedge-leaves, Heed it, whoso thou art; Under lowly eaves Lives the happy heart. -- John Vance Cheney
There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word... -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is meant by its nature for the highest and the best, spreads among the lowly people. -- Franz Kafka
When mundane, lowly activities are at stake, too much insight is detrimentalâ??far-sightedness errs in immediate concerns. -- Franz Grillparzer
How white are the fair robes of Charity as she walketh amid the lowly habitations of the poor! -- Hosea Ballou
The Christian is like the ripening corn; the riper he grows the more lowly he bends his head. -- Alfred Bertram Guthrie
True love is that we should hate whatever interferes with our vision of the high and the lowly. -- R. A. Lafferty
The tree laden with fruits always bends low. If you wish to be great, be lowly and meek. -- Ramakrishna
Are we proud and passionate, malicious and revengeful? Is this to be like-minded with Christ, who was meek and lowly? -- John Tillotson
Linnea.... A plant of Lapland, lowly, insignificant, disregarded, flowering but for a brief space - from Linnaeus who resembles it. -- Carl Linnaeus
The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for error; and those of the poor and lowly, for crimes. -- Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
For this is love's truth; she joins two in one being, makes sweet sour, strangers neighbors, and the lowly noble. -- Hadewijch
The American language differs from the English in that it seeks the top of expression while English seeks its lowly valleys. -- Salvador de Madariaga
The Son of God passed by the mansions and went down in a manger that He might sympathize with the lowly. -- Dwight L. Moody
Humility is the softening shadow before the stature of Excellence, And lieth lowly on the ground, beloved and lovely as the violet. -- Martin Farquhar Tupper
There's beauty all around our paths, If but our watchful eyes Can trace it 'midst familiar things, And through their lowly guise. -- Felicia Hemans
Societies create their own history and tend to wipe out lowly beginnings, either by forgetting them or inventing totally fictitious heroic rescues. -- Isaac
The rich man in his castle, The poor man at his gate, God made them, high or lowly, And order'd their estate. -- Cecil Frances Alexander
If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus' material was lowly clay, but his statues walked. -- Franz Grillparzer
Man is never sufficiently touched and affected by the awareness of his lowly state until he has compared himself with God's majesty. -- John Calvin
We will respond with a heavy hand to the brutal murder of Jews who came to pray and were killed by lowly murderers. -- Benjamin Netanyahu
Man stands alone in the universe, responsible for his condition, likely to remain in a lowly state, but free to reach above the stars. -- Walter Kaufmann
Courtesy which oft is found in lowly sheds, with smoky rafters, than in tapestry halls and courts of princes, where it first was named. -- John Milton
This earth will be looked back on like a lowly home, and this life of ours be remembered like a short apprenticeship to duty. -- William Mountford
So might we ourselves look down into some rock-pool where lowly creatures repeat with naive zest dramas learned by their ancestors Ã¦ons ago. -- Olaf Stapledon
But this I know. Those who seek Him will do well to look among the poor and the lowly, the sorrowful and the oppressed. -- Henry Van Dyke
Before it is too late, we must narrow the gaping chasm between our proclomations of peace and our lowly deeds which precipitate and perpetuate war. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future. -- J. G. Ballard
Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice; The confidence of reason give, And in the light of truth thy bondman let me live! -- William Wordsworth
The only people who soul can truly magnify the Lord arepeople who acknowledge their lowly estate and are overwhelmed by the condescension of the magnificent God. -- John Piper
Sometimes it takes a lowly, title-less man to humble the world. Kings, rulers, CEOs, judges, doctors, pastors, they are already expected to be greater and wiser. -- Criss Jami
The high mountains are barren, but the low valleys are covered over with corn; and accordingly the showers of God's grace fall into lowly hearts and humble souls. -- Sam Worthington
Oh that I was lowly in heart! Honor and dishonor, good report and evil report would then be alike, and prove a furtherance to me in my Christian cause. -- George Whitefield
It may be doubted that there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world as have these lowly organized creatures. -- Charles Darwin
The bottom is a monotonous, dreary, unprofitable place for any person. That is why I have taken the time to describe how lowly beginnings may be circumvented by proper planning. -- Napoleon Hill
Even if it's such a lowly art as TV, you've got to get stuff off your chest, because that's what makes something different and original, your particular take on stuff. -- Ricky Gervais
Almighty Father! let thy lowly child, Strong in his love of truth, be wisely bold,-- A patriot bard, by sycophants reviled. Let him live usefully, and not die old! -- Ebenezer Elliott
The rich and powerful want to believe in their right to be rich and powerful, so they justify it by saying they are inherently superior to the poor and lowly. -- Gwen Bristow
Verily, I swear, 'tis better to be lowly born, and range with humble livers in content, than to be perk'd up in a glistering grief, and wear a golden sorrow. -- William Shakespeare
Verily, I swear, 'tis better to be lowly born, and range with humble livers in content, than to be perk'd up in a glistering grief, and wear a golden sorrow." -- William Shakespeare
When I arrived at the point where I received public acclaim, I felt the most lowly, because I knew within myself that I had but begun to tap my inner resources. -- Walter Russell
Verily, I swear, it is better to be lowly born, and range with humble livers in content, than to be perked up in a glistering grief, and wear a golden sorrow. -- William Shakespeare
The hand of benevolence is everywhere stretched out, searching into abuses, righting wrongs, alleviating distresses, and bringing to the knowledge and sympathies of the world the lowly, the oppressed, and the forgotten. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
In the heraldry of heaven goodness precedes greatness; so on earth it is more powerful. The lowly and the lovely may frequently do more in their own limited sphere than the gifted. -- Thomas Hartwell Horne
We observe that one of the great attributes of discretion is that it can mask ignorance of all the most common and lowly varieties, and Walter Moody was nothing if not excessively discreet." -- Eleanor Catton
Give me to live with Love alone And let the world go dine and dress; For Love hath lowly haunts... If life's a flower, I choose my own 'T is "love in Idleness". -- Samuel Laman Blanchard
Higher yet and higher out of clouds and night, nearer yet and nearer rising to the light - light, serene and holy where my soul may rest, purified and lowly, sanctified and blest. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I love her with a love as still As a broad river's peaceful might, Which by high tower and lowly mill, Goes wandering at its own will, And yet does ever flow aright. -- James Russell Lowell
The best people are like water, which benefits all things and does not compete with them. It stays in lowly places that others reject. This is why it is so similar to the Way. -- Laozi
The more loftily we see Christ enthroned, and the more lowly we are when bowing before the foot of the throne, the more truly shall we be prepared to act our part towards Him. -- Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Thus Angels' Bread is made The Bread of man today: The Living Bread from Heaven With figures doth away: O wondrous gift indeed! The poor and lowly may Upon their Lord and Master feed. -- Thomas Aquinas
Heaven is not reached at a single bound. But we build the ladder by which we rise. From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies, And we mount to its summit round by round. -- J. G. Holland
The Divine mind is as visible in its full energy of operation on every lowly bank and mouldering stone as in the lifting of the pillars of heaven, and settling the foundation of the earth. -- John Ruskin
When I pastored a country church, a farmer didn't like the sermons I preached on hell. He said, Preach about the meek and lowly Jesus. I said, That's where I got my information about hell. -- Vance Havner
You are not only the solar spectrum with the seven luminous colours, but the sun himself, that illumines, warms, and revivifies! This is what you are, and I am the lowly woman that adores you. -- Juliette Drouet
My journey deep into coma, outside this lowly physical realm and into the loftiest dwelling place of the almighty Creator, revealed the indescribably immense chasm between our human knowledge and the awe-inspiring realm of God. -- Eben Alexander

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