"It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is a great and rare attainment."

Bernard, St. on humility
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"Without humility there can be no humanity."

Buchan, John on humility
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"They are proud in humility, proud that they are not proud."

Burton, Robert on humility   

"One that does not think to highly of himself is more than he thinks."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on humility
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"Humility leads to strength and not to weakness. It is the highest form of self-respect to admit mistakes and to make amends for them."

Mccloy, John (Jay) on humility
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"Too much humility is pride."

Proverb, German on humility
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"Too humble is half proud."

Proverb, Yiddish on humility
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"A vulgar mind is proud in prosperity and humble in adversity. A noble mind is humble in prosperity and proud in adversity."

Ruckett on humility
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"In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love."

Byron, Lord on passion
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"Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on passion
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"Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on passion   

"A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them."

Jung, Carl on passion
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"What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion."

Kierkegaard, Søren on passion
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"Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care."

Pascal, Blaise on passion
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"Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions."

Paul, Jean on passion
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"Passion is the genesis of genius."

Robbins, Anthony on passion
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"We must act out passion before we can feel it."

Sartre, Jean-Paul on passion   

"The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless."

Sayers, Dorothy L. on passion   

"Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign."

Bryant, William C. on pain
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"It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience."

Caesar, Julius on pain
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"All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief."

Cicero, Marcus T. on pain
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"The injuries that befall us unexpectedly are less severe than those which are deliberately anticipated."

Cicero, Marcus T. on pain
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"The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings."

Hazlitt, William on pain
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"Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost, must always end in pain."

Johnson, Samuel on pain
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"Pain is life -- the sharper, the more evidence of life."

Lamb, Charles on pain
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"The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not."

Lewis, C. S. on pain
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"Even Pain pricks to livelier living."

Lowell, Amy on pain   

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"Pain was their body's way of telling them that they'd pushed themselves to their limits -- which was exactly where they were supposed to be."

Marcinko, Richard on pain
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"Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity."

Wilde, Oscar on abstinence
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"For he who lives more lives than one: More deaths than one must die."

Wilde, Oscar on death
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"Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the morning and Shame sits with us at night."

Wilde, Oscar on despair
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"There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul and body alike. The first is called the Prince. The second is called the Pope. The third is called the People."

Wilde, Oscar on despotism
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"Better the rule of One, whom all obey, than to let clamorous demagogues betray our freedom with the kiss of anarchy."

Wilde, Oscar on dictators and dictatorship
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"Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation."

Wilde, Oscar on discontent
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"She is absolutely inadmissible into society. Many a woman has a past, but I am told that she has at least a dozen, and that they all fit."

Wilde, Oscar on grace
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"Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer."

Wilde, Oscar on dream
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"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."

Wilde, Oscar on dream
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"Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness."

Wilde, Oscar on dullness
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"The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence."

Wilde, Oscar on education
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"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."

Wilde, Oscar on education
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