"True humility is not an abject, groveling, self-despising……" — Tryon Edwards
"True humility is not an abject, groveling, self-despising spirit; it is but a right estimate of ourselves as God sees us."
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81 Quotes by Tryon Edwards
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Appreciation, whether of nature, or books, or art, or men, depends very much on temperament. What is beauty or genius…
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Thoughts lead on to purpose, purpose leads on to actions, actions form habits, habits decide character, and character fixes our…
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Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to…
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Seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.
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Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries. In a world where…
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Never be so brief as to become obscure.
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Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.
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We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave…
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Whoever in prayer can say, 'Our Father', acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind.
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Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow…
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Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!
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Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of…
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In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to…
— Jean Baudrillard
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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all…
— Jean Baudrillard
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I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to…
— Berkeley Breathed
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Terrorists are not 100 feet tall. Nor do they deserve the abject fear they seek to instill.
— John O. Brennan
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May we not suspect that the vague but very real fears of children, which are quite independent of experience, are…
— Charles Darwin
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Self-respect will keep a man from being abject when he is in the power of enemies, and will enable him…
— Bertrand Russell
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I am proud up to the point of equality; everything above or below that appears to me arrant impertinence or…
— William Hazlitt
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Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.
— Epictetus
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The crisis is arrived when we must assert our rights, or submit to every imposition, that can be heaped upon…
— George Washington
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Social Science, is not a 'gay science' but rueful, which finds the secret of this universe in 'supply and demand'…
— Thomas Carlyle
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If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over…
— Henry A. Kissinger
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The Koran calls for belief and consequent obedience. It is, surely, calculated to inspire fear, indeed abject terror, rather than…
— Antony Flew
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