Ralph Waldo Emerson on Humility
1803–1882 United States
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Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the haughtiness of humility.
Letters and Social Aims (1876)
Religion … is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.
The mark of the man of the world is absence of pretension. He does not make a speech; he takes a low business-tone, avoids all brag, is nobody, dresses plainly, promises not at all, performs much, speaks in monosyllables, hugs his fact. He calls his employment by its lowest name, and so takes from evil tongues their sharpest weapon.