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Quotes On Humility
Contributed by Billy Nale on Apr 13, 2011 (message contributor)
QUOTES ON HUMILITY
"To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them."
-- Charles de Montesquieu
"Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth."
-- Madame Guizot
"None are so empty as those who are full of themselves."
-- Benjamin Whichcot
"Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able and yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom."
-- William Penn
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