,
Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale,
Or press the bashful stranger to his food,
And learn the luxury of doing good.
--GOLDSMITH.

HUMILITY.--The sufficiency of my merit is to know that my merit is not
sufficient.--ST. AUGUSTINE.

The high mountains are barren, but the low valleys are covered over
with corn; and accordingly the showers of God's grace fall into lowly
hearts and humble souls.--WORTHINGTON.

He who sacrifices a whole offering shall be rewarded for a whole
offering; he who offers a burnt-offering shall have the reward of a
burnt-offering; but he who offers humility to God and man shall be
rewarded with a reward as if he had offered all the sacrifices in the
world.--THE TALMUD.

True humility--the basis of the Christian system--is the low but deep
and firm foundation of all virtues.--BURKE.

By humility, and the fear of the Lord, are riches, honor, and life.
--PROVERBS 22:4.

"If you ask, what is the first step in the way of truth? I answer
humility," saith St. Austin. "If you ask, what is the second? I say
humility. If you ask, what is the third? I answer the same--humility."
Is it not as the steps of degree in the Temple, whereby we descend to
the knowledge of ourselves, and ascend to the knowledge of God? Would
we attain mercy? humility will help us.--C. SUTTON.

Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.--MATTHEW 5:5.

Nothing can be further apart than true humility and servility.--BEECHER.

Some one called Sir Richard Steele the "vilest of mankind," and he
retorted with proud humility, "It would be a glorious world if I
were."--BOVEE.

Humility is the Christian's greatest honor; and the higher men climb,
the farther they are from heaven.--BURDER.

The grace which makes every other grace amiable.--ALFRED MERCIER.

If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble; for the proud
heart, as it loves none but itself, so it is beloved of none but by
itself; the voice of humility is God's music, and the silence of
humility is God's rhetoric. Humility enforces where neither virtue nor
strength can prevail nor reason.--QUARLES.

The fullest and best ears of corn hang lowest toward the ground.
--BISHOP REYNOLDS.

If thou wouldst find much favor and peace with God and man, be very
low in thine own eyes; forgive thyself little, and others much.
--LEIGHTON.

After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser.--FRANKLIN.

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