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Give place to your betters.
[Lat., De locum melioribus.]
Give place to your betters.
[Lat., De locum melioribus.]
He saw a cottage with a double coach-house,
A cottage of gentility!
And the Devil did grin, read more
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.
We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.
We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.
You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.
You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.
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
One may be humble out of pride.
One may be humble out of pride.
Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self. It is no
humility for a man to think read more
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.
'Umble we are, 'umble we have been, 'umble we shall ever be.
'Umble we are, 'umble we have been, 'umble we shall ever be.