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Humility: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Lowliness is the base of every virtue, And he who goes the lowest builds the safest.— BAILEY — Festus. Sc. Home.

My favored temple is an humble heart.— BAILEY — Festus. Sc. Colonnade and

Lawn. To be nameless in worthy deeds, exceeds an infamous history.— SIR THOMAS BROWNE — Hydriotaphia. Ch. V.

O wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as ithers see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us. And foolish notion; What airs in dress and gait wad lea'e us, And ev'n devotion!— BURNS — To a Louse.

And be the Spartan's epitaph on me- "Sparta hath many a worthier son than he."— BYRON — Childe Harold. Canto IV. St. 10.

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.— COLERIDGE — Devil's Thoughts. (See

SOUTHEY'S Devil's Walk.) I am well aware that I am the 'umblest person going *** let the other be where he may.— DICKENS — David Copperfield. Vol. I. Ch. XVI.

'Umble we are, 'umble we have been, 'umble we shall ever be.— DICKENS — David Copperfield. Vol. I. Ch. XVII.

Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the haughtiness of humility.— EMERSON — Letters and Social Aims.

Greatness. God hath sworn to lift on high Who sinks himself by true humility.— KEBLE — Miscellaneous Poems. At

Hooker's Tomb. O be very sure That no man will learn anything at all, Unless he first will learn humility. OWEN MEREDITH (Lord Lytton)- Vanini. L.

Parvum parva decent. Humble things become the humble.— HORACE — Epistolæ. I. 7. 44.

Da locum melioribus. Give place to your betters.— TERENCE — Phormio. III. 2. 37.