Seemly Quotes
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The truly good and wise man will bear all kinds of fortune in a seemly way, and will always act in the noblest manner that the circumstances allow.
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More Seemly Quotes
Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori. It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country. See Owen 632:57.
— Odes, bk.3, no.2, l.13.
All loved Art in a seemly way With an earnest soul and a capital A.
james jeffrey roche— The V-a-s-e, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
So for thy spirit did devise Its Maker seemly garniture, Of its own essence parcel pure, From grave simplicities a dress, And reticent demureness, And love encinctured with reserve; Which the woven vesture would subserve. For outward robes in their ostents Should show the soul's habiliments. Therefore I say, Thou'rt fair even so, But better Fair I use to know.
Francis Thompson— Francis Thompson, Gilded Gold, Stanza 2.
