The Minute You Think You've Got It, You've Lost It

Image by stuant63 via FlickrMan’s highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them. – Johann wolfgang von Goethe




All cruelty springs from weakness. – Seneca



One time it pays to have a firm hand is when it shakes hands with a firmer one. – O.A. Battista



Our strength is often composed of the weakness we’re damned if we’re going to show. – Mignon McLaughlin



The greatest weakness of all is the great fear of appearing weak. – Jacques Benigne Boussuet



Humility is a strange thing. The minute you think you’ve got it, you’ve lost it. – E.D. Hulse



Let the meek inherit the earth – they have it coming to them. – James Thurber

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