The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
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But all who humble themselves before the Lord shall be given every blessing and shall have wonderful peace.
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Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home.
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Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.
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Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.
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One may be humble out of pride.
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Be humble as the blade of grass that is being trodden underneath the feet. The little ant tastes joyously the sweetness of honey and sugar. The mighty elephant trembles in pain under the agony of sharp goad.
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For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again.
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Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.
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The position of the artist if humble. He is essentially a channel.
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I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness
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This is Christmas: not the tinsel, not the giving and receiving, not even the carols, but the humble heart that receives anew the wondrous gift, the Christ.
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When you have a crisis, the crisis itself becomes one of your biggest asset if that crisis is bad enough. Everyone get very modest and humble and listens. If you need do rough things, you do rough things.
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Nothing on earth is so well-suited to make the sad merry, the merry sad, to give courage to the despairing, to make the proud humble, to lessen envy and hate, as music
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To open avenues to political place and power for all classes of women would cause [the] humble labors of the family and school to be still more undervalued and shunned.
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It is not difficult to write in Spanish; the Spanish language is a gift from the gods which we Spaniards take for granted. I take comfort therefore in the belief that you wished to pay tribute to a glorious language and not to the humble writer who uses it for everything it can express: the joy and the wisdom of Mankind, since literature is an art form of all and for all, although written without deference, heeding only the voiceless, anonymous murmur of a given place and time.
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And now this word to all of you: You should be like one big happy family, full of sympathy toward each other, loving one another with tender hearts and humble minds
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Heroism is latent in every human soul - However humble or unknown, they (the veterans) have renounced what are accounted pleasures and cheerfully undertaken all the self-denials - privations, toils, dangers, sufferings, sicknesses, mutilations, life-
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Home is home, be it ever so humble
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Be humble, for the worst thing in the world is of the same stuff as you; be confident, for the stars are of the same stuff as you.
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Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
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I am no more humble than my talents require.
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I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?
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