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Be lowly wise: Think only what concerns thee and thy being. — John Milton

Things can be low on the food chain, but that doesn't mean they're lowly ... — Gary Larson

If you don't start playing by my rules, you'll be lucky to be licking stamps in some lowly, legal aid office. — Linda Pohl

So might we ourselves look down into some rock-pool where lowly creatures repeat with naive zest dramas learned by their ancestors aeons ago. — Olaf Stapledon

What is meant by its nature for the highest and the best, spreads among the lowly people. — Franz Kafka

Highly fed and lowly taught. — William Shakespeare

You, God, made yourself lowly and small to make us great! — St. Catherine Of Siena

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

The lowly have small ambitions, and are satisfied with small indulgences. They need not get fair treatment. They need only think that they do ... — Joe Abercrombie

Thus God's work and His eyes are in the depths, but man's only in the height. — Martin Luther

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

The Son of God passed by the mansions and went down in a manger that He might sympathize with the lowly. — Dwight L. Moody

The Christian is like the ripening corn; the riper he grows the more lowly he bends his head. — Alfred Bertram Guthrie

Are we proud and passionate, malicious and revengeful? Is this to be like-minded with Christ, who was meek and lowly? — John Tillotson

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

The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly. — William Wordsworth

Consider, o consider the lowly mole. His small hands are sore and his snout bleedeth. — Margery Allingham

Oh, and Knievel stared you down, and you gave in so quick." Jed laughed lowly, rubbing his hand over Redford's stomach. "You're now my cat's bitch. — Robin Saxon

Lowly, with a broken neck, The crocus lays her cheek to mire. — George Meredith

The American language differs from the English in that it seeks the top of expression while English seeks its lowly valleys. — Salvador De Madariaga

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

How hard a thing is life to the lowly, and yet how human and real! — W.E.B. Du Bois

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

No job, no matter how lowly, is truly 'unskilled. — Barbara Ehrenreich

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

Overconfidence is a lowly bitch that easily fucked. — Toba Beta

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

is Mary, the lowly virgin from Nazareth, in whom a new beginning takes place, in whom human existence starts afresh. — Pope Benedict XVI

Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success. — Ambrose Bierce

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 — Eleanor Catton

The gentle race of flowers
Are lying in their lowly beds. — William C. Bryant

The tree laden with fruits always bends low. If you wish to be great, be lowly and meek. — Ramakrishna

New Testament Christians were most known by their love for their neighbors, but today we are most known for our segregation of the lowly. — Jefferson Bethke

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

True love is that we should hate whatever interferes with our vision of the high and the lowly. — R.A. Lafferty

How much does a beam of light weigh? — Ijosephi Lowly Worm

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

The mind makes the nobleman, and uplifts the lowly to high degree. — Seneca The Younger

Societies create their own history and tend to wipe out lowly beginnings, either by forgetting them or inventing totally fictitious heroic rescues. — Isaac

Can one n/ever not think? ... Meditation the Art of Non-Thinking — Ijosephi Lowly Worm

Right. You archangel, me lowly seraph. You'd think I would've learned that by now. — L.G. Castillo

I accept refreshment at any hands, however lowly. — W.S. Gilbert

Twas never merry world Since lowly feigning was called compliment. — William Shakespeare

The moon's my constant mistress,
And the lowly owl my marrow;
The flaming drake and the night crow make,
Me music to my sorrow. — Anonymous

Though I have looked everywhere / I can find nothing lowly / in the universe. — A.R. Ammons

God loves the lowly. When we live humbly, he takes our small efforts and creates great things. — Pope Francis

Consider how Jesus came from a position of glory and consistently reached out to the lowly. — Alistair Begg

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

The 'lowly' finite is MUCH more beautiful than any 'infinite' — Doron Zeilberger

How much does a thought weigh? — Ijosephi Lowly Worm

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

What is a rainbow, Lord?
A hoop for the lowly. — Jack Kerouac

There are no fairy tales in the wild, no Cinderella stories. The lowly wolf that seems to rise to the top of the pack was really the alpha all along — Jodi Picoult

For this is love's truth; she joins two in one being, makes sweet sour, strangers neighbors, and the lowly noble. — Hadewijch

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

Theater publicly reveals the human condition through appealing to both intellect and emotion. Architecture, whether lowly or exalted, can do the same. — Hugh Hardy

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.

We're not going to fit together."
"We are," he says lowly. "In all ways. — Krista Ritchie

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

I am always able to speak with him (Christ) inwardly. But I am nevertheless just a lowly little man who does not always reach all the way up to him. — Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI

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

If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus' material was lowly clay, but his statues walked. — Franz Grillparzer

It's only when you are meek and lowly that you can find rest for your soul and be a pastor without tears. — Sunday Adelaja

It is better for people to mistakenly think lowly of you than for them to erroneously think highly of you. — Matshona Dhliwayo

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

There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word ... — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Now in the sun's new dawning ray, lowly of heart, our God we pray that He from harm may keep us free in all the deeds this day shall see. — Glenn Cooper

When mundane, lowly activities are at stake, too much insight is detrimental - far-sightedness errs in immediate concerns. — Franz Grillparzer

When you bow down your head to pray
Let the first thing that you say
Be a lowly word and meek:
I admit that I am weak. — John Piper

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

How white are the fair robes of Charity as she walketh amid the lowly habitations of the poor! — Hosea Ballou

It would be a lowly art that allowed itself to be understood all at once. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The message from the hedge-leaves, Heed it, whoso thou art; Under lowly eaves Lives the happy heart. — John Vance Cheney

Let others emulate the eagle's flight, Life in the lowly plains may be as bright. — Henrik Ibsen