"I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall do till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness."
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"God as we ought to worship Him. God is Spirit, so we must worship Him in spirit and truth, that is, by a humble and true adoration of spirit in the depth and center of our souls."
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"Our reverence for the nobility of manhood will not be lessened by the knowledge that man is in substance and in structure, one with the brutes; for he alone possesses the marvellous endowment of intelligible and rational speech whereby he has slowly accumulated and organized the experience which is almost wholly lost with the cessation of individual life in other animals; so that he now stands raised above it as on a mountain-top, far above the level of his humble fellows, and transfigured from his grosser nature by reflecting, here and there, a ray from the infinite source of truth."
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"Humility is attentive patience."
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"Thanksgiving Day - Let all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks, now, but the turkeys. In the island of Fiji they do not use turkeys, they use plumbers. It does not become you and me to sneer at Fiji."
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"To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own."
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"Never pay attention to the rumors and what they assume"
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"She knows there's more to life, and she's scared of ending up alone"
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"I know that it's comin I just hope that I'm alive for it"
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"I'm the one twice over I'm the new eleven"
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"Every time you see me I look like I hit the lotto twice."
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"Don't be impatient when it takes too long. Or drink it all even when it tastes to strong."
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"You best believe that I often tend to surpass what the rest achieve."
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"I'm a staple in my city, you can never ruin me."
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"Me and success are two things you don't wanna find yo ass between. Back against the wall like plasma screens."
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"We’ll go where the air is pure, where all sounds are soothing, where, no matter how proud one may be, one feels humble and finds oneself small- in short, we’ll go to the sea. I love the sea as one loves a mistress and I long for her when I haven’t seen her for some time"
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"You desire that which exceeds my humble powers, but I trust in the compassion and mercy of the All-powerful God."
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"If, in my retirement to the humble station of a private citizen, I am accompanied with the esteem and approbation of my fellow citizens, trophies obtained by the bloodstained steel, or the tattered flags of the tented field, will never be envied. The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government."
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"A vast deal of human sympathy runs along the electric line of needlework, stretching from the throne to the wicker chair of the humble seamstress."
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"I stand here before you not as a prophet, but as a humble servant of you, the people."
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