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"It was evident that he had nothing around him but the simplest necessaries, for everything that I remarked upon turned out to have been sent in on my account....Yet, having already made his fortune in his own mind, he was so unassuming with it that I felt quite grateful to him for not being puffed up."
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"But the Egotist is stuck somewhere between his hidden triad of pride, fear, and insecurity; he is forever fighting to prove himself, instigating battles the Humbleman has unwittingly conquered, already sealed some time ago. Yes, the day he finally accepts face-to-face such an irony as humility - the irony that humility is indeed the mother of giants, that great men, having life so large, as needed, can afford to appear small - the world will then know peace."
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"Great people do not struggle for their position."
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"A person who is humble would never be abusive or selfish, so don't abuse yourself or withhold self-love or self-care."
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"The master demon Screwtape identifies elitist humanity's tendency toward "an ingrained habit of belittling anything that concerns the great mass of their fellow men."
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"Humility puts others first because "first" takes on new meaning through the practice of humility."
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"Being a fool is a billion times better than being blinded by the illusion of intellect."
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"A great man is always willing to be little."
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"You must be a servant if you want to be great in life."
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"Nothing humbles a rich man better than a poor man that isn't willing to do 'anything' for money."
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"Humility is, in a sense, admitting how egotistical you are."
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"We must leave the discovery of this mystery, like all others, to time, and accident, and Heaven's pleasure."
Mystery
"I care for no man on earth, and no man on earth cares for me."
Emotion
"When she spoke, Tom held his breath, so eagerly he listened; when she sang, he sat like one entranced. She touched his organ, and from that bright epoch even it, the old companion of his happiest hours, incapable as he had thought of elevation, began a new and deified existence."
Art
"A man may live to be as old as Methuselah,' said Mr. Filer, 'and may labour all his life for the benefit of such people as those; and may heap up facts on figures, facts on figures, facts on figures, mountains high and dry; and he can no more hope to persuade 'em that they have no right or business to be married, than he can hope to persuade 'em that they have no earthly right or business to be born. And that we know they haven't. We reduced it to a mathematical certainty long ago!"
Life
"She wasn't a logically reasoning woman, but God is good, and hearts may count in heaven as high as heads."
Faith
"Mr Lorry asks the witness questions:Ever been kicked? Might have been.Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord."
Experience
"My meaning is, that no man can expect his children to respect what he degrades."
Morality
"Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly."
Wisdom
"There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated."
Wisdom
"Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image."
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