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"You don't want modesty, you want humility. Humility comes from inside out. It says someone was here before me and I'm here because I've been paid for. I have something to do and I will do that because I'm paying for someone else who has yet to come."
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"The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him."
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"To make mistakes or be wrong is human. To admit those mistakes shows you have the ability to learn, and are growing wiser."
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"The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it."
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"Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self."
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"Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness."
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"Turn thy crown upside down! You need to feel how it is to kneel as those less fortunate than your noble deal."
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"Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame."
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"Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man."
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"Every man I meet is in some way my superior."
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"A minister is coming down every generation nearer and nearer to the common level of the useful citizen - no oracle at all but a man of more than average moral instincts who if he knows anything knows how little he knows."
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"Once you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses, your sense of hearing, then you begin to respect the sense of seeing and touching and tasting, you learn to respect all the senses."
Gratitude
"I want all my senses engaged. Let me absorb the world's variety and uniqueness."
Awareness
"The devil lives in our mistakes, the lord lives in our rights. Who lives in our ignorance, and who wins after all?"
Morality
"We need much less than we think we need."
Simplicity
"All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike."
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"As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else."
Healing
"Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women."
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"I answer the heroic question, 'Death, where is thy sting?' with 'It is in my heart and mind and memories."
Grief
"Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift."
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"The Black female is assaulted in her tender years by all those common forces of nature at the same time she is caught in the tripartite crossfire of masculine prejudice, white illogical hate and Black lack of power.The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerence. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors and deserves respect if not enthusiastic admiration."
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