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Lowliness is the base of every virtue,
And he who goes the lowest builds the safest.
Author: Philip James Bailey
Source: Festus (sc. Home)
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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.
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Source: Devil's Walk
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I am well aware that I am the 'umblest person going . . . let the
other be where he may.
Author: Charles Dickens
Source: The Personal History of David Copperfield (vol. I, ch. XVII)
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'Umble we are, 'umble we have been, 'umble we shall ever be.
Author: Charles Dickens
Source: The Personal History of David Copperfield (vol. I, ch. XVII)
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show me someone not full of herself and i'll show
you a hungry person
Author: Nikki Giovanni
Source: Poem for a Lady Whose Voice I Like
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Humble things become the humble.
[Lat., Parvum parva decent.]
Author: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Source: Epistles (I, 7, 44)
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God hath sworn to lift on high
Who sinks himself by true humility.
Author: John Keble
Source: Miscellaneous Poems--At Hooker's Tomb
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O be very sure
That no man will learn anything at all,
Unless he first will learn humility.
Author: Lord Lytton (Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton) ("Owen Meredith")
Source: Vanini (l. 327)
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Don't be so humble--you are not that great.
Author: Lord Lytton (Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton) ("Owen Meredith")
Source: Vanini (l. 327)
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One may be humble out of pride.
Author: Michael Eyquen de Montaigne
Source: Of Presumption (bk. II, ch. XVII)
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Fairest and best adorned is she
Whose clothing is humility.
Author: James Montgomery
Source: Humility
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Nearest the throne itself must be
The footstool of humility.
Author: James Montgomery
Source: Humility
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Humility, that low, sweet root,
From which all heavenly virtues shoot.
Author: Thomas Moore
Source: Loves of the Angels--Third Angel's Story (st. 11)
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I was not born for Courts or great affairs;
I pay my debts, believe, and say my pray'rs.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Prologue to Satires (l. 268)
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The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about
anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to
verify my notions have only wasted my time.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Prologue to Satires (l. 268)
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We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of
ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of
our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our
naked skins.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Prologue to Satires (l. 268)
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The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Source: Man and Superman
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Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self. It is no
humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought, though
it might rather puzzle him to do that.
Author: Charles Hadden Spurgeon
Source: Gleanings Among the Sheaves--Humility
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The higher a man is in grace, the lower he will be in his own
esteem.
- Charles Hadden Spurgeon,
Author: Charles Hadden Spurgeon
Source: Gleanings Among the Sheaves--The Right Estimate
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Give place to your betters.
[Lat., De locum melioribus.]
Author: Terence (Publius Terentius Afer)
Source: Phormio (III, 2, 37)
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One may be humble out of pride.
Author: Michel de Montaigne
Source: None
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When we become aware of our humility, we've lost it.
Author: Source Unknown
Source: None
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Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.
Author: François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Source: None
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Humility is like underwear; essential, but indecent if it shows.
Author: Helen Nielsen
Source: None
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The beloved of the Almighty are: the rich who have the humility of the poor, and the poor who have the magnanimity of the rich.
Author: Saadi
Source: None
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Humility leads to strength and not to weakness. It is the highest form of self-respect to admit mistakes and to make amends for them.
Author: John (Jay) McCloy
Source: None
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Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life.
Author: George Arliss
Source: None
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