#humble

The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#humble #love #tasks #work #beauty

Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger. ↗

— Abraham Cahan

#control #humble #modest #simple #your

Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. ↗

— William Cowper

#knows #more #wisdom

Strip the proud nobility of their bloated estates, reduce them to a level with plain republicans, send forth to labor, and teach their children to enter the workshops or handle the plow, and you will thus humble proud traitors. ↗

— Thaddeus Stevens

#children #enter #estates #forth #handle

Life is the power that's greater than I can ever comprehend. The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature - that makes me humble. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

#elements #even #ever #everything #greater

Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

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Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own. ↗

— William E. Gladstone

#almighty #almighty god #among #call #eye

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water. ↗

— John W. Gardner

#activity #because #exalted #excellence #good

The marathon can humble you. ↗

— Bill Rodgers

#marathon #you

I am no more humble than my talents require. ↗

— Oscar Levant

#humble #i #i am #more #require