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Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails and impious men bear away, The post of honor is a private station. - Joseph Addison, Cato (act IV, sc. 4) Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life. - George Arliss The sufficiency of my merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient. - Saint Aurelius Augustine (Augustine of Hippo) Wellnigh the whole substance of the Christian discipline is humility. - Saint Aurelius Augustine (Augustine of Hippo) My favored temple is an humble heart. - Philip James Bailey Lowliness is the base of every virtue, And he who goes the lowest builds the safest. - Philip James Bailey, Festus (sc. Home) Nothing can be further apart than true humility and servility. - Henry Ward Beecher Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth. - Bible, Matthew (ch. V, v. 5) By humility and the fear of the Lord, are riches, and honour, and life. - Bible, Proverbs (ch. XXII, v. 4) Some one called Sir Richard Steele the "vilest of mankind," and he retorted with proud humility, "It would be a glorious world if I were." - Christian Nestell Bovee The humble soul is like the violet, which grows low, hangs the head downward, and hides itself with its own leaves. - Fredrika Bremer Humility leads to the highest distinction, because it leads to self-improvement. - Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie The true way to be humble is not to stoop till you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that shall show you what the real smallness of your greatest greatness is. - Phillips Brooks "He that humbleth himself shall be exalted." This great law of the kingdom of God is, in the teaching of Christ, inscribed over its entrance-gate. - Sir Thomas Browne Without humility there can be no humanity. - John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir Humility is the Christian's greatest honor; and the higher men climb, the farther they are from heaven. - Burder Humanity cannot be degraded by humiliation. - Edmund Burke True humility--the basis of the Christian system--is the low but deep and firm foundation of all virtues. - Edmund Burke True love is the parent of a noble humility. - William Ellery Channing Humility is the root, mother, nurse, foundation, and bond of all virtue. - St. John Chrysostom He saw a cottage with a double coach-house, A cottage of gentility! And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin Is pride that apes humility. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Devil's Walk He that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do exercises the truest humility. - Charles Caleb Colton We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves. When we see the martyr to virtue, subject as he is to the infirmities of a man, yet suffering the tortures of a demon, and bearing them with the magnanimity of a God, do we not behold a heroism that angels may indeed surpass, but which they cannot imitate, and must admire. - Charles Caleb Colton Humility is the solid foundation of all the virtues. - Confucius Shall we speak of the inspiration of a poet or a priest, and not of the heart impelled by love and self-devotion to the lowliest work in the lowliest way of life? - Charles Dickens Displaying page 1 of 4 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2 3 4
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