— Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow For old, unhappy, far-off things, And battles long ago: Or is it some more humble lay, Familiar matter of to-day?
It gave me special joy to buy plants I had seen in Grandpa's garden and give them humble starts in my own garden.
Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
) Be it ever so humble , there is no place like home.
Alison Headley, Digital Preservation and Blogs, SXSW 2006 If the weak hand, that has recorded this tale, has, by its scenes, beguiled the mourner of one hour of sorrow, or, by its moral, taught him to sustain it - the effort, however humble, has not been vain, nor is the writer unrewarded.
Hannah More I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), (attributed) My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
The more noble, the more humble.
Irish Proverb The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.
Knowledge makes humble, ignorance makes proud.
I believe in love''s humble, practical components and their combined power.
It seems hard to believe that what is now an international sport and multimillion-dollar industry evolved from origins as humble as hitting a pebble around sand dunes with a stick.
This is a humble conclusion, but I cannot make myself disbelieve it.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910) I am no more humble than my talents require.
Humble hat cleaner though he was, he had a spirit equal to any caliph's.
Just as his more fortunate fellow New Yorkers had bought their tickets to Palm Beach and the Riviera each winter, so Soapy had made his humble arrangements for his annual hegira to the Island.
John Green, VlogBrothers, A Poem for Spring, 03-26-13 Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home.
Don't look down on others because they don't have what you didn't earn—your intellect, your beauty, and your culture of birth are undeserved gifts…be humble.
"This is hard, because you have to humble yourself a little and find a way to see things from this manager's point of view," says Karin Hurt, CEO of Baltimore-based executive coaching firm Let's Grow Leaders.
-- How could the grateful humble grass Ever repay the kindness of the generous sun?
