Humility

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None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.  ~Benjamin Whichcote

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One learns to ignore criticism by first learning to ignore applause.  ~Robert Brault

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Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with.  ~Peter Marshall

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Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.  ~Friedrich Nietzsche

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The man who thinks he can live without others is mistaken; the one who thinks others can't live without him is even more deluded.  ~Hasidic Saying

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Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought.  ~Dwight Morrow

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If every fool wore a crown, we should all be kings.  ~Welsh Proverb

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He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.  ~George Eliot, Adam Bede, 1859

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I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.  ~James McNeill Whistler

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You shouldn't gloat about anything you've done; you ought to keep going and find something better to do.  ~David Packard

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Nobody stands taller than those willing to stand corrected.  ~William Safire

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Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a confession of the deficiency it indicates.  He who undervalues himself is justly overvalued by others.  ~William Hazlitt

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Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.  ~Oliver Herford

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Modesty:  The art of encouraging people to find out for themselves how wonderful you are.  ~Source Unknown

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Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.  ~Adlai Stevenson

[Lorenzo]

Thanks for sharing these quotes, Fr. Roel.