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Letter "H" » Humility
"Lowliness is the base of every virtue,
And he who goes the lowest builds the safest."
Author: Philip James Bailey
About: Humility
"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
About: Humility
"I am well aware that I am the 'umblest person going . . . let the
other be where he may."
Author: Charles Dickens
About: Humility
"'Umble we are, 'umble we have been, 'umble we shall ever be."
Author: Charles Dickens
About: Humility
"show me someone not full of herself and i'll show
you a hungry person"
Author: Nikki Giovanni
About: Humility
"Humble things become the humble.
[Lat., Parvum parva decent.]"
Author: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
About: Humility
"God hath sworn to lift on high
Who sinks himself by true humility."
Author: John Keble
About: Humility
"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")
About: Humility
"Don't be so humbleyou are not that great."
Author: Lord Lytton (Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton) ("Owen Meredith")
About: Humility
"One may be humble out of pride."
Author: Michael Eyquen de Montaigne
About: Humility
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