"How can he possibly be humble? He hasn't done anything yet."
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"It is not that we keep His commandments first and that then He loves but that He loves us and then we keep His commandments. This is that grace which is revealed to the humble but hidden from the proud."
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"I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when they are exalted."
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"He also always blesses humble beginnings much more than those accompanied by a lot of show."
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"[A] truly humble spirit humbles itself as much amid honors as amid insults, acting like the honeybee which makes its honey equally as well from the dew that falls on the wormwood as from that which falls on the rose."
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"I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all."
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"I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps."
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"Conceit is a privilege of the ignorant; the wise man is humble because he knows how little he knows."
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"Friends, Comrades and fellow South Africans. I greet you all in the name of peace, democracy and freedom for all. I stand here before you not as a prophet but as a humble servant of you, the people. Your tireless and heroic sacrifices have made it possible for me to be here today. I therefore place the remaining years of my life in your hands."
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"You know, when I have a bad game, it continues to humble me and know that, you know, you still have work to do and you still have a lot of people to impress."
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"Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgment to others with modesty."
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"If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?"
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"True love is but a humble, low born thing, And hath its food served up in earthenware; It is a thing to walk with, hand in hand, Through the every-dayness of this workday world."
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"If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul."
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"Most fighters are the most humble people in the world because they've gotten their ass kicked before."
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"Your patient has become humble; have you drawn his attention to the fact? All virtues are less formidable to us once the man is aware that he has them, but this is specially true of humility."
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"The psychological and moral comfort of a presence at once humble and understanding-this is the greatest benefit that the dog has bestowed upon man."
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"It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness."
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"He who hates himself is not humble."
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"Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble and grateful mind."
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