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Humility is like underwear; essential, but indecent if it shows.
Humility is like underwear; essential, but indecent if it shows.
To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.
To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.
Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.
Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.
show me someone not full of herself and i'll show
you a hungry person
show me someone not full of herself and i'll show
you a hungry person
I am well aware that I am the 'umblest person going . . . let the
other be where read more
I am well aware that I am the 'umblest person going . . . let the
other be where he may.
What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity for read more
What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity for the closest possible intimacy with God
When we become aware of our humility, we've lost it.
When we become aware of our humility, we've lost it.
I was not born for Courts or great affairs;
I pay my debts, believe, and say my pray'rs.
I was not born for Courts or great affairs;
I pay my debts, believe, and say my pray'rs.
Humble things become the humble.
[Lat., Parvum parva decent.]
Humble things become the humble.
[Lat., Parvum parva decent.]
