"It is always the secure who are humble."
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"Reading without thinking will confuse you.Thinking without reading will place you in danger."
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"I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men."
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"It's far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help."
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"It is often found that modesty and humility not only do no good, but are positively hurtful, when they are shown to the arrogant who have taken up a prejudice against you, either from envy or from any other cause."
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"I am persuaded that love and humility are the highest attainments in the school of Christ and the brightest evidences that He is indeed our Master."
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"I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility."
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"As long as you are proud, you cannot know God."
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"Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility."
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"Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal."
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"Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself."
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"Most of the greatest evils that man has inflicted upon man have come through people feeling quite certain about something which, in fact, was false."
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"When I sing, I believe. I'm honest. If you want to get an audience with you, there's only one way. You have to reach out to them with total honesty and humility."
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"I have lived as plain Mr. Jinnah and I hope to die as plain Mr. Jinnah. I am very much averse to any title or honours and I will be more than happy if there was no prefix to my name."
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"To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator."
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"Each moment that passes changes you...You can't even own yourself. How can you ever hope to own anyone or anything else."
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"Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending."
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"When I survey the wondrous cross On which the Prince of Glory died, My richest gain I count but loss, And pour contempt on all my pride."
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"Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all."
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"A candle loses nothing of its light by lighting another candle."
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