There's a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks

Quote by John Dryden

Topics: Humility Quotes

Love is hard work; and hard work sometimes hurts!

Love is hard work; and hard work sometimes hurts!

Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.

Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.

He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount...

He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount...

Beware the fury of a patient man.

Beware the fury of a patient man.

Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.

Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.

When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor...

When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor...

Honor is but an empty bubble.

Honor is but an empty bubble.

Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath...

Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath...

To die is landing on some distant shore.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

The first is the law, the last prerogative.

The first is the law, the last prerogative.

And plenty makes us poor.

And plenty makes us poor.

For they conquer who believe they can.

For they conquer who believe they can.

When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat. Yet, fooled by hope, men favour the...

When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat. Yet, fooled by hope, men favour the...

Even victors are by victory undone

Even victors are by victory undone

Words are but pictures of our thoughts.

Words are but pictures of our thoughts.

Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging...

Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging...

For, Heaven be thank'd, we live in such an age, when no man dies for...

For, Heaven be thank'd, we live in such an age, when no man dies for...

Age: that period of life in which we compound for the vices that we still...

Age: that period of life in which we compound for the vices that we still...

O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

When I was your age, television was called books.

When I was your age, television was called books.

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.