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• If Spirituality is that you're humble in the face of forces greater than you and you believe those forces are more inclined toward being good than being bad, then I'm a spiritual person.

  Michael J. Fox

  Spiritual, Believe, Faces

  "Happy Birthday, Michael". Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. May 5, 2011.

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• A proud faith is as much a contradiction as a humble devil.

  Stephen Charnock

  Devil, Proud, Contradiction

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• Being humble matters.

  Kevin Hart

  Matter, Be Humble

  "Getting Real with Kevin Hart". Interview with J. Rentilly, www.menshealth.com. January 17, 2014.

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• If some people are right, artists are put into this world not to practice their art, but to talk about it. And judging by the flattering invitations many a humble climber will receive to pontificate from the lowest rung but one of the ladder, humanity is in a dangerously receptive frame of mind, and artists a race devoid of either modesty or sense of humor.

  Ethel Smyth

  Art, Race, Practice

  Ethel Smyth (1922). “Streaks of life”

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• [On golf:] ... though aware I could never be more than a humble potterer, it was impossible to repress the wild upsurgings of hope known to all middle-aged beginners.

  Ethel Smyth

  Golf, Beginners, Impossible

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• As the falcon launched trustingly heavenward is lost to view, the course of the higher poetry often soars beyond the ken of the multitude; and, as the humble birds carol blithely round our dwellings, so the meeker lays of the muse linger tunefully about the heart.

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

  Heart, Views, Dwelling

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• True love is humble, thereby is it known;
  Girded for service, seeking not its own;
  Vaunts not itself, but speaks in self-dispraise.

  Abraham Coles

  Love, Self, Vaunt

  Abraham Coles (1880). “The microcosm, and other poems”

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• Used to be, conservatives revered the Average American, that Norman Rockwell oil painting of diner food, humble faith, honest toil, and Capraesque virtue.

  James Wolcott

  Oil Painting, Average, Toil

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• For me, religion is serious business - a farrago of authoritarian nonsense, misogyny and humble pie, the eternal enemy of human happiness and freedom.

  Katha Pollitt

  Pie, Enemy, Serious Business

  Katha Pollitt (2007). “Subject to Debate: Sense and Dissents on Women, Politics, and Culture”, p.29, Modern Library

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• This is the spirit of prayer--sincere, humble, believing, submissive. Other prayer than this the Bible does not require--God will not accept.

  Gardiner Spring

  Prayer, Believe, Doe

  Gardiner Spring (1813). “Essays on the distinguishing traits of Christian character”, p.167

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• If I had a humble spirit in my service who, when I asked for a glass of water, brought me the world's costliest wines blended in a chalice, I should dismiss him, in order to teach him that my pleasure consists, not in what I enjoy, but in having my own way.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Wine, Glasses, Order

  Soren Kierkegaard (1946). “Either/or”

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• The child--a skilled actor with a hundred masks: a different one for his mother, father, grandmother or grandfather, for a stern or lenient teacher, for the cook or maid, for his own friends, for the rich and poor. Naive and cunning, humble and haughty, gentle and vengeful, well behaved and willful, he disguises himself so well that he can lead us by the nose.

  Janusz Korczak

  Mother, Teacher, Children

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• There is a God! the sky his presence shares,
  His hand upheaves the billows in their mirth,
  Destroys the mighty, yet the humble spares
  And with contentment crowns the thought of worth.

  Charlotte Saunders Cushman

  God, Hands, Sky

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• No writer, however popular, disdains a reader, however humble.

  Vera Caspary

  Reader, Disdain

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• Nothing is difficult for the humble.

  Mary Faustina Kowalska

  Humility, Difficult

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• We were so poor as kids. I didn't even see a bathtub, running water, hot water, commode - we didn't have any of that. We started with a humble log house, milk cow, garden-raised our own food, killed a hog every year in the fall, and had the meat hanging up in the smokehouse - that was our childhood, me and ol' Si.

  Phil Robertson

  Running, Fall, Kids

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• The real champions in life are so humble and gracious. They just continue doing what they do without all the posturing. If you've got the real thing, you don't have to flaunt a loud imitation.

  Denis Waitley

  Real, Champion, Imitation

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• I have admired Melissa Pritchard's writing for several years now for its wisdom, its humble elegance, and its earthy comedy.

  Rick Moody

  Writing, Years, Comedy

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• I do think women generally are more humble.

  Kay Bailey Hutchison

  Thinking

  "Kay Bailey Hutchison: I Thought About Running For President" By Jennifer Bendery, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 18, 2012.

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• As a director, try to be humble and not to overdo it, not overcoverage and over-covering the scene.

  Jean-Marc Vallee

  Trying, Directors, Covering

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• Everyone should take their hats off to Neil Armstrong. He is a humble guy who doesn't wave his own flag.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Guy, Flags, Hats

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• There's times when you see people climbing and getting success and you start to see, oh, they're starting to really change. So I always just make the effort to be as humble and grateful as possible.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Grateful, Climbing, People

  "Jennifer Aniston talks tabloids and staying normal in Hollywood". Q&A, www.foxnews.com. March 24, 2014.

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• I actually think that my films are intellectual. I think almost everything I do is intellectual, but I would never say that, because that's a compliment. That's up to others to say about me. The same way, I would never say I do art. I think art is up to history. It's up to other people to utter that word. So I try to be humble.

  John Waters

  Art, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It is easy to be humble when a greater is preferred; but when an inferior is lifted high above our heads, how can we bear it?

  Constance Fenimore Woolson

  Humility, Bears, Easy

  Constance Fenimore Woolson (2015). “Anne”, p.17, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Landscapes have a language of their own, expressing the soul of the things, lofty or humble, which constitute them, from the mighty peaks to the smallest of the tiny flowers hidden in the meadow's grass.

  Alexandra David-Neel

  Flower, Soul, Landscape

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