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- We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- In golf, humiliations are the essence of the game. — Alistair Cooke
- You will gain more by receiving scorn peacefully than if you fasted for a week on bread and water. It is good… — Alphonsus Liguori
- Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
- Everything is a grace, everything is the direct effect of our Father's love - difficulties, contradictions, humiliations, all the soul's miseries, her… — Therese of Lisieux
- Whether our feet are compressed in iron shoes, our faces hidden with veils and masks; whether yoked with cows to draw the… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities,… — William James
- The fabliau, then, is a short story that is a tall story. It combines a burly blurting of dirty words with a… — Christopher Ricks
- How could people like these, without words to put to their emotions and passions, manage? They could, at best, only suffer dumbly.… — V.S. Naipaul
- Part of growing up spiritually is learning to be grateful for all things, even our difficulties, disappointments, failures and humiliations. — Mike Aquilina
- All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay,… — Jorge Luis Borges
- As soon as error is corrected, it is important that the error be forgotten and only the successful attempts be remembered. Errors,… — Vince Lombardi