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Never be haughty to the humble or humble to the haughty.


Jefferson Davis

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CRISS JAMI To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Don't be humble... you're not that great.
GOLDA MEIR To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD Victory is by nature insolent and haughty.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO Is this that haughty, gallant, gay Lothario?
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JOAN BAEZ I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?
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JOHN MILTON Oh, tenderly the haughty day Fills his blue urn with fire
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AFRICAN PROVERB The haughty blind person picks a fight with his guide. - Ethiopia
AFRICAN PROVERB I just want to be humble at all times.
MIKE TYSON None are more haughty than a common place person raised to power.
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FEREIDOON YAZDI The brilliant chief, irregularly great, Frank, haughty, rash--the Rupert of debate.
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?
JOAN BAEZ Haughty, silent faces should not deceive us: these are the timid ones
JULES RENARD No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.
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TOM ROBBINS Sincerity may be humble but she cannot be servile.
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JEAN-MARC VALLEE Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
BIBLE Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
BIBLE Alarm bells ring when a politician stands haughty upon his honour.
HOWARD JACOBSON Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.
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SANJO JENDAYI Nothing in the world is more haughty than a man of moderate capacity when once raised to power.
BARON WESSENBERG Nothing in the world is more haughty than a man of moderate capacity when once raised to power.
BARON WESSENBERG Proud and haughty scorner is his name, who dealeth in proud wrath.
BIBLE Do thou restrain the haughty spirit in thy breast, for better far is gentle courtesy.
HOMER The humble Cumulus humilis - never hurt a soul.
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TALIB KWELI We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.
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BRYANT MCGILL Humble things become the humble. [Lat., Parvum parva decent.]
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GARY F EVANS... Be brave enough to be simple and humble.
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MUHAMMAD ALI Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.
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NEIL GAIMAN Boast during the day; be humble at night.
MAORI PROVERB To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
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DENISE BOTTCHER The Universe loves the humble,for it takes humility to be proudly rich.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Talent is God-given; be humble. Fame is man-given; be thankful. Conceit is self-given; be careful.
HARVEY MACKAY Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
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ERIK PEVERNAGIE I'm just a humble cricketer with no claims to omniscience or omnipotence.
SHANE WARNE Man is not mean to be humble, he's meant to be humbled.
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THOMAS JEFFERSON Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he...
THOMAS JEFFERSON In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by renderi...
THOMAS JEFFERSON I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
THOMAS JEFFERSON It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the...
THOMAS JEFFERSON I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending t...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
THOMAS JEFFERSON The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Certainly one of the highest duties of the citizen is a scrupulous obedience to the laws of the nati...
THOMAS JEFFERSON It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour.
THOMAS JEFFERSON