"I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget."

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"I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget."

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

Charles Spurgeon, British Clergyman

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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."

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."

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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."

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"Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power."

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"Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions."

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"Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action."

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"King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner."

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"A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both."

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"Luck is what a capricious man believes in."

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"There is a magic in the memory of a schoolboy friendship. It softens the heart and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart."

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"No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married."

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