“Humility, that low, sweet root
From which all heavenly virtues shoot.”
Thomas Moore (1779–1852) Irish poet, singer and songwriter
The Loves of the Angels, The Third Angel's Story.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice; and yet everybody is content to hear.”
Humility.
Table Talk (1689)
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William Osler (1849–1919) Canadian pathologist, physician, educator, bibliophile, historian, author, cofounder of Johns Hopkins Hospi…
As quoted in The Book of Unusual Quotations (1957) by Rudolf Franz Flesch, p. 122.
Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz (1890–1963) Philosopher, logician
Source: Problems and theories of philosophy, 1949, p. 152, as cited in Łukasiewicz, 2016.
Ford Madox Ford book The Good Soldier
Part Four, Ch. V (pp. 237-238)
Source: The Good Soldier (1915)
Context: It is a queer and fantastic world. Why can't people have what they want? The things were all there to content everybody; yet everybody has got the wrong thing. Perhaps you can make head or tail of it; it is beyond me.
Is there any terrestrial paradise where, amidst the whispering of the olive-leaves, people can be with whom they like and have what they like and take their ease in shadows and in coolness? Or are all men's lives like the lives of us good people — like the lives of the Ashburnhams, of the Dowells, of the Ruffords — broken, tumultuous, agonized, and unromantic lives, periods punctuated by screams, by imbecilities, by deaths, by agonies? Who the devil knows?
Lahiri Mahasaya (1828–1895) Indian yogi and guru
Source: Autobiography of a Yogi (1946), Ch. 34 : Materializing a Palace in the Himalayas
Karl Hess (1923–1994) American journalist
“The Death of Politics”, Playboy (March, 1969).
“Practice yourself what you preach.”
[F]acias ipse quod faciamus nobis suades.
Asinaria, Act III, scene 3, line 54 (line 644 of full Latin text).
Variant translation: Do you then yourself do that which you would be suggesting to us to do. (translator Henry Thomas Riley, 1912)
Asinaria (The One With the Asses)
