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Reverence is the work of attention. In fact, reverence is attention.
Robert Zaretsky • The Subversive Simone Weil: A Life in Five Ideas
“If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.”
James Clear • 3-2-1: On wealth, learning, and love
To honour means to respect, to regard, to value and to esteem. It has to be outworked through four areas: our words, our giving, our service and our obedience.
Andrew Murray • Seeing The Church: When your purpose collides with God's passion
respect became complete, unanimous, cordial, and towards 1821 the moment arrived when the word "Monsieur le Maire" was pronounced at M. sur M. with almost the same accent as "Monseigneur the Bishop" had been pronounced in D—— in 1815. People came from a distance of ten leagues around to consult M. Madeleine.
Victor Hugo • Les Misérables (English language)
respect became complete, unanimous, cordial, and there came a moment, around 1821, when the words “Monsieur the Mayor” were pronounced at Montreuil-sur-mer with almost the same accent as the words “Monseigneur the Bishop” at Digne in 1815.
Victor Hugo • Les Miserables (Les Misérables)
he was so useful and he was so gentle that people had been obliged to honor and respect him. His workmen, in particular, adored him, and he endured this adoration with a sort of melancholy gravity.
Victor Hugo • Les Misérables (English language)
my admiration for him had grown by leaps and bounds.
Elif Shafak • The Forty Rules of Love
‘Attention,’ wrote the French thinker Simone Weil, ‘is the rarest and purest form of generosity.’ Give your sentences that courtesy and they will repay you.