"We all need to be mocked from time to time, lest we take ourselves too seriously."

Humility, Humor, Ego, Truth

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"We all need to be mocked from time to time, lest we take ourselves too seriously."

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"Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self."

Charles Spurgeon, British Clergyman

Humility, Right, Self

"Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness."

Joseph Addison, English Writer

Humility, Merit

"Turn thy crown upside down! You need to feel how it is to kneel as those less fortunate than your noble deal."

Stanley Victor Paskavich, American Politician

Humility, Empathy, Nobility, Perspective

"Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame."

Alexander Pope, English Poet

Humility, Kindness, Generosity, Secrecy

"Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man."

Alexander Pope, English Poet

Humility, God, Man, Mankind, Study

"Every man I meet is in some way my superior."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Humility, Man

"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."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Writer

Humility, Knowledge, Morality, Wisdom

"The secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Writer

Humility, Success, God, Discovery

"I don't know how to talk to you, Mrs. Huntingdon . . . you are only half a woman - your nature must be half human, half angelic. Such goodness overawes me; I don't know what to make of it."

Anne Bronte, British Novelist

Humility, Judgment, Relationship, Emotion

"It's easy to be humble when your life's prosper.Nothing could be denigrated when life's so poor."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

Humility, Wisdom, Truth, Power, Regret

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"Old stories are like old friends (...) you have to visit them from time to time."

Memory

"It's death and destruction I want to bring down upon House Lannister, not scorn. Jon said."

Revenge

"There is sitting and there is sitting. (...) Each one waits for the other to move, but the lion is poised, his tail twitching, while the fawn is frozen by fear, bowels turned to belly. No matter which way he bounds, the lion will have him, and he knows it."

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"Some men are like swords, made for fighting. Hang them and they go to rust."

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"Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self."

"Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness."

"Turn thy crown upside down! You need to feel how it is to kneel as those less fortunate than your noble deal."

"Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame."

"Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man."

"Every man I meet is in some way my superior."

"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."

"The secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God."

"I don't know how to talk to you, Mrs. Huntingdon . . . you are only half a woman - your nature must be half human, half angelic. Such goodness overawes me; I don't know what to make of it."

"It's easy to be humble when your life's prosper.Nothing could be denigrated when life's so poor."

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"Was there ever a war where only one side bled?"

"It is hard to die unmourned."

"Three good men dead, to save a hedge knight's foot."

"All men must die. We are but death's instruments, not death himself."

"Wolves and women wed for life."

"The only wolves we got to fear are the ones wear manskin."

"Old stories are like old friends (...) you have to visit them from time to time."

"It's death and destruction I want to bring down upon House Lannister, not scorn. Jon said."

"There is sitting and there is sitting. (...) Each one waits for the other to move, but the lion is poised, his tail twitching, while the fawn is frozen by fear, bowels turned to belly. No matter which way he bounds, the lion will have him, and he knows it."

"Some men are like swords, made for fighting. Hang them and they go to rust."