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Quote by St. Bernard
It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to

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. – St. Bernard

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Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens. – St. Bernard

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Insults
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You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters. – St. Bernard

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Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it out, and strike it, merely to show that you have one. – Lord Chesterfield

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There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us. – Laurence J. Peter

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Too humble is half proud. – Yiddish Proverb

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We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility. – Rabindranath Tagore

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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. – Aristotle

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The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it. – E. B. White

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Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid. – Oscar Wilde

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When you think of it I havent really done a lot of horror. Its amazing: I have done some really good ones, but I havent done a lot of them. – Michael Rooker

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