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Humility is fundamentally a respect for the difficulty of the challenges we face, and a respect for those who choose other ways to face those challenges.
Humility: Recognizing Greatness Beyond Oneself | Managing Greatness 2009
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This also counts as my entry in the Storm_and_Wolf ficathon using the prompt: Humility is no substitute for a bad personality.
Breaking Up is Hard to Do--Birthday Ficlet for Azriona amberfocus 2009
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Humility is a wonderful thing — so long as it's not during the Christmas season.
Happy Holidays? Andrew Beckner 2007
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Humility is the only appropriate attitude to take when we are forced to rely on the generosity of others, the generosity of nature.
MORE FROM GINNY BATES: MYRA AND GILLAM Maggie Jochild 2007
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Humility is a wonderful thing — so long as it's not during the Christmas season.
Archive 2007-11-01 Andrew Beckner 2007
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Prior to the speech, Gustaf Hellström of the Swedish Academy made these remarks: «Humility is also the characteristic which you, Mr. Eliot, have come to regard as man's virtue.
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Humility is that ornament which is in the sight of God of great price.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721
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Humility is a lesson so hardly learned, that we have need by all ways and means to be taught it.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721
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Humility is the presage of honour and prepares men for it, and honour shall at length be the reward of humility, as he had said before, ch. xv.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721
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Humility is the great preserver of peace and order in all Christian churches and societies, consequently pride is the great disturber of them, and the cause of most dissensions and breaches in the church.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721
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