"If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride."

Humility, Pride

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"If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride."

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

Charles Spurgeon, British Clergyman

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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."

Stanley Victor Paskavich, American Politician

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

Alexander Pope, English Poet

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

Alexander Pope, English Poet

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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."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Writer

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Writer

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"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

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

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

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"I have been called arrogant myself in my time, and hope to earn the title again, but to claim that I am privy to the secrets of the universe and its creator - that's beyond my conceit."

Christopher Hitchens, American Author

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"All of yesterday's ballers are today's road sweepers."

Habeeb Akande, British Historian

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Explore more quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

"The great error consists in supposing that poetry is an unnatural form of language. We should all like to speak poetry at the moment when we truly live, and if we do not speak it, it is because we have an impediment in our speech. It is not song that is the narrow or artificial thing, it is conversation that is a broken and stammering attempt at song. When we see men in a spiritual extravaganza, like Cyrano de Bergerac, speaking in rhyme, it is not our language disguised or distorted, but our language rounded and made whole."

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"Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere."

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"Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life."

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"My country, right or wrong, is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober."

Society

"I should say that there ought to be no war except religious war. If war is irreligious, it is immoral. No man ought ever to fight at all unless he is prepared to put his quarrel before that invisible Court of Arbitration with which all religion is concerned. Unless he thinks he is vitally, eternally, cosmically in the right, he is wrong to fire off a pocket-pistol."

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"Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes."

Man

"...the primary paradox that man is superior to all the things around him and yet is at their mercy."

Philosophy

"The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations."

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"The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing."

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"Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised."

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