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humility math reality
We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori. Carl Friedrich Gauss
humility pride vanity
And that is enough to raise your thoughts to what may happen when the redeemed soul, beyond all hope and nearly beyond belief, learns at last that she has pleased Him whom she was created to please. There will be no room for vanity then. She will be free from the miserable illusion that it is her doing. With no taint of what we should now call self-approval she will most innocently rejoice in the thing that God has made her to be, and the moment which heals her old inferiority complex forever will also drown her pride… Perfect humility dispenses with modesty. C. S. Lewis
humility golf futility-of-life
Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort. Abba Eban
humility understanding quality
Steadfastness is a noble quality, but unguided by knowledge or humility, it becomes rashness, or obstinacy. Aaron Swartz
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Those who travel the high road of humility are not troubled by heavy traffic. Alan K. Simpson
humility generosity quality
If you strive to become a good human being with the qualities of generosity, humility and having reverence for life...just maybe you'll become a great musician. Charlie Haden
humility discovery design
It is a mortifying truth, and ought to teach the wisest of us humility, that many of the most valuable discoveries have been the result of chance rather than of contemplation, and of accident rather than of design. Charles Caleb Colton
humility greatness men
Some men who know that they are great are so very haughty withal and insufferable that their acquaintance discover their greatness only by the tax of humility which they are obliged to pay as the price of their friendship.
humility angel men
We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves. When we see the martyr to virtue, subject as he is to the infirmities of a man, yet suffering the tortures of a demon, and bearing them with the magnanimity of a God, do we not behold a heroism that angels may indeed surpass, but which they cannot imitate, and must admire.
grace consoling humour
Humour is...the all-consoling and...the all-excusing, grace of life.
grace imitation facility
Those graces which from their presumed facility encourage all to attempt an imitation of them, are usually the most inimitable.
grace religion
In the New Testament, religion is grace and ethics is gratitude. Thomas Erskine
grace want assumption
If you want to enter a state of grace, question the assumption you’re defending right now. Byron Katie
grace way conviction
Live up to your convictions. You walk in grace or you walk in fear. You can't have it both ways. Carlos Santana
grace cold persuasion
His cold politeness, his ceremonious grace, were worse than anything. Jane Austen
grace sovereign sin
Sin is sovereign till sovereign grace dethrones it. Charles Spurgeon
grace salvation ends
There is no other salvation except that which begins and ends with grace.
grace promise given
God could not have given this promise, except from love and grace; therefore it is quite certain his Word will be fulfilled.
amiable conduct convinced experience human lived nations passions
I have lived long enough, and had experience enough of the conduct of governments and people, nations and courts, to be convinced that gratitude, friendship, unsuspecting confidence, and all the amiable passions in human nature, are the most dangerou John Adams
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I'd be lying if I claimed that, in spite of our amiable afternoons, I don't have an ache somewhere in my heart that my children will not be playing Carnegie Hall anytime soon. Sandra Tsing Loh
amiable ancestry born unless
No one is better born than another, unless they are born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition.
amiable life passing reason seduces vigilance woman
There is nothing so much seduces reason from vigilance as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman in marriage. Samuel Johnson
amiable buildings custom
Most modular buildings are very amiable about custom changes.
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We will regroup, ... This, in no way, will be regarded by us as a firing. We both understand that a different direction would be best for both Henry and the Sparks. It is an amiable situation for us both. John Whisenant
amiable destroys everyday human nerves
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being. Benjamin Disraeli
amiable districts good leave talk
At most districts there is an appropriate and professional way for the superintendent to leave - to talk about all of the good things that have been done and have an amiable parting.
amiable busted conversation wants
If you read it without the background, you're going to think this is a very amiable conversation. But he's dead. He's busted by then. He'll say anything. He just wants to get along.