"It is easy to be humble when a greater is preferred; but when an inferior is lifted high above our heads, how can we bear it?"

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Source : Constance Fenimore Woolson (2015). “Anne”, p.17, Sheba Blake Publishing

Constance Fenimore Woolson

#Humble Quotes #Humility Quotes #Bears Quotes

“We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities.”
“Most God-ordained dreams die because we are not willing to do something that seems illogical”
“I do think that I can sing, though I actually like voices I can't imitate.”
“I think for the foreseeable future we have to disabuse ourselves of any ideas of unifying, or coming together, or all getting along. I don't think we're going to reconcile the America that elected the first African American president with the America that just elected a president avidly endorsed by the Ku Klux Klan - I'm not sure I even want to reconcile the two.”

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“Live your dream. Do what you came here to do.”
“A demand for commodities is not a demand for labor. The demand for labor is determined by the amount of capital directly devoted to the remuneration of labor: the demand for commodities simply determines in what direction labor shall be employed.”
“I have lost friends, some by death...others by sheer inability to cross the street.”
“My body is the only thing thatâ€™s truly mine, so I donâ€™t give it away as though itâ€™s worthless.”

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