"The fact that you are not perfect may come as a surprise to you but it is not a surprise to anyone else."

Humility, Imperfection, Humor, Truth, Self-Awareness

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"The fact that you are not perfect may come as a surprise to you but it is not a surprise to anyone else."

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

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

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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."

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

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