"If a man is devout, we accuse him of hypocrisy; if he is not, of impiety; if he is humble, we look on his humility as a weakness; if he is generous, we call his courage pride."

-- Louis Bourdaloue

#Humble Quotes #Humility Quotes #Pride Quotes

“The happiest life has the greatest number of points of contact with the world, and it has the deepest feeling and sympathy with everything that is.”

Source : Liberty Hyde Bailey (1903). “The Nature-study Idea: Being an Interpretation of the New School-movement to Put the Child in Sympathy with Nature”
“If you had seen one day of war, you would pray to God that you would never see another.”
“You see some classes of the human family that are black, uncouth, uncomely, disagreeable and low in their habits, wild, and seemingly deprived of nearly all the blessings of the intelligence that is generally bestowed upon mankind....Cain slew his brother. Can might have been killed, and that would have put a termination to that line of human beings. This was not to be, and the Lord put a mark upon him, which is the flat nose and black skin.”
“Detraction's a bold monster, and fears not To wound the fame of princes, if it find But any blemish in their lives to work on.”
“Some people said I was annoying, but now look how far we've come.”
“Britney painted her finger nails and it really seemed like they had a blast.”

Source : "Ben Harper expecting another child; Jacko rejected by Nicole Kidman; Nicholson to buy Brando's home?". www.sfgate.com. July 23, 2004.
“Performing, I can take it or leave it. Horticulture is far more challenging. I'm absolutely fascinated by it.”
“One of the great things about being an actor is it serves a short attention span, which is something I have.”

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