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Sunday, January 22, 2023

Post #3160

Life is a long lesson in humility.
—Sir James M. Barrie

Monday, January 02, 2017

Post #2241

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.
—Robert Leighton

Tuesday, June 02, 2015

Post #1827

Humility is the hall-mark of wisdom.
—Jeremy Collier

Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Post #1792

Soar not too high to fall, but stoop to rise.
—Thomas Fuller

Wednesday, March 04, 2015

Post #1763

He who does not think too much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Friday, January 09, 2015

Post #1725

Someone called Sir Richard Steele the "vilest of mankind", and he retorted with proud humility, "It would be a glorious world if I were.".
— Christian Nestell Bovee

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Tuesday, September 09, 2014

Post #1637

He that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do, exercises the truest humility.
— Charles C. Colton

The Penalty of Leadership

In every field of human endeavor, he that is first must perpetually live in the white light of publicity. ¶Whether the leadership be vested in a man or in a manufactured product, emulation and envy are ever at work. ¶In art, in literature, in music, in industry, the reward and the punishment are always the same. ¶The reward is widespread recognition; the punishment, fierce denial and detraction. ¶When a man’s work becomes a standard for the whole world, it also becomes a target for the shafts of the envious few. ¶If his work be mediocre, he will be left severely alone – if he achieve a masterpiece, it will set a million tongues a -wagging. ¶Jealousy does not protrude its forked tongue at the artist who produces a commonplace painting. ¶Whatsoever you write, or paint, or play, or sing, or build, no one will strive to surpass or to slander you unless your work be stamped with the seal of genius. ¶Long, long after a great work or a good work has been done, those who are disappointed or envious, continue to cry out that it cannot be done. Spiteful little voices in the domain of art were raised against our own Whistler as a mountebank, long after the big world had acclaimed him its greatest artistic genius. ¶Multitudes flocked to Bayreuth to worship at the musical shrine of Wagner, while the little group of those whom he had dethroned and displaced argued angrily that he was no musician at all. ¶The little world continued to protest that Fulton could never build a steamboat, while the big world flocked to the river banks to see his boat steam by. ¶The leader is assailed because he is a leader, and the effort to equal him is merely added proof of that leadership. Failing to equal or to excel, the follower seeks to depreciate and to destroy – but only confirms once more the superiority of that which he strives to supplant. ¶There is nothing new in this. It is as old as the world and as old as human passions – envy, fear, greed, ambition, and the desire to surpass. ¶And it all avails nothing. ¶If the leader truly leads, he remains – the leader. ¶Master-poet, master-painter, master-workman, each in his turn is assailed, and each holds his laurels through the ages. ¶That which is good or great makes itself known, no matter how loud the clamor of denial. ¶That which deserves to live — lives.
written by Theodore F. MacManus

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