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Humility does not consist of having a worse opinion of ourselves than we deserve, or in abasing ourselves lower than we really are - humility is based upon a true and just sense of our weakness, misery, and sin. If you rightly feel and live in this sense of your condition, you will live in humility.
~ William Law 1686 - 1761
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The most delicious pleasure is to cause that of other people.
~ La Bruyere 1645 - 1696
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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
~ George Eliot 1819 - 1880
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That man must be tremendously ignorant: he answers every question that is put to him.
~ Voltaire 1694 - 1778
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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.
~ Socrates 469 BC - 399 BC
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Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
~ Publilius Syrus 1st Century BC -
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We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk at all.
~ La Rochefoucauld 1613 - 1680
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Destiny has two ways of crushing us- by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
~ Henri Amiel 1821 - 1881
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