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Lowliness is the base of every virtue, And he who goes the lowest builds the safest.

He saw a cottage with a double coach-house, A cottage of gentility! And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin Is pride that apes humility.

I am well aware that I am the 'umblest person going . . . let the other be where he may.

'Umble we are, 'umble we have been, 'umble we shall ever be.

show me someone not full of herself and i'll show you a hungry person

Humble things become the humble.

God hath sworn to lift on high Who sinks himself by true humility.

O be very sure That no man will learn anything at all, Unless he first will learn humility.

Don't be so humble--you are not that great.

One may be humble out of pride.

Fairest and best adorned is she Whose clothing is humility.

Nearest the throne itself must be The footstool of humility.

Humility, that low, sweet root, From which all heavenly virtues shoot.

I was not born for Courts or great affairs; I pay my debts, believe, and say my pray'rs.

The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.

We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought, though it might rather puzzle him to do that.

The higher a man is in grace, the lower he will be in his own esteem. - Charles Hadden Spurgeon,

Give place to your betters.