It is not for you to say - you Englishmen, who have conquered your freedom so long ago, that you have conveniently forgotten what blood you shed, and what extremities you proceeded to in the conquering - it is not for you to say how far the worst of all exasperations may, or may not, carry the maddened men of an enslaved nation. The iron that has entered into our souls has gone too deep for you to find it. Leave the refugee alone! Laugh at him, distrust him, open your eyes in wonder at the secret self which smolders in him, sometimes under the every-day respectability and tranquility of a man like me - sometimes under the grinding poverty, the fierce squalor, of men less lucky, less pliable, less patient than I am - but judge us not. In the time of your first Charles you might have done us justice - the long luxury of your freedom has made you incapable of doing us justice now.
Wilkie CollinsTag: politics justice humility understanding
But the vicar of St. Botolph's had certainly escaped the slightest tincture of the Pharisee, and by dint of admitting to himself that he was too much as other men were, he had become remarkably unlike them in this - that he could excuse others for thinking slightly of him, and could judge impartially of their conduct even when it told against him. [from Middlemarch, a quote my mother thinks describes the kind of man my father was]
George EliotTag: strength humility fairness
Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
Ann LandersIt would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"!
(Institutio III.2.3)
Tag: knowledge faith humility ignorance absurdity calvin
I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is 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.
Lao TzuTag: humility leadership frugality
We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
Ernest HemingwayTag: humility
It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.
Publilius SyrusTag: humility
Early in my career...I had to choose between an honest arrogance and a hypercritical humility... I deliberately choose an honest arrogance, and I've never been sorry.
Frank Lloyd WrightTag: honesty humility arrogance
One cannot be humble and aware of oneself at the same time.
Madeleine L'EngleTag: humility
It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know the sense of wonder and humility.
Rachel CarsonTag: beauty humility wonder earth
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