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Humility has its origin in an awareness of unworthiness, and sometimes too in a dazzled awareness of saintliness.

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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.

New York World-Telegram and Sun (1961)

My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Break of Day (1928)

To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.

Paris From My Window (1944)

It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change.

The world of the emotions that we so lightly call physical.

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Be wise;
Soar not too high, to fall; but stoop to rise.

Philip Massinger Duke of Milan (1623)

Those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.

Jesus

At very best, a person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.

Harry Emerson Fosdick On Being a Real Person (1943)

Modesty is an unnatural attitude, and one which is only with difficulty taught to children.

Isaac Asimov The Early Asimov Book Two (1972)

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