April 30

Serving the Lord with all humility.—ACTS xx, 19.

The bird that soars on highest wing

Builds on the ground her lowly nest;

And she that doth most sweetly sing

Sings in the shade when all things rest—

In lark and nightingale we see

What honor hath humility.

JAMES MONTGOMERY.

The only true independence is in humility; for the humble man exacts nothing, and cannot be mortified—expects nothing, and cannot be disappointed. Humility is also a healing virtue; it will cicatrize a thousand wounds which pride would keep forever open. But humility is not the virtue of a fool; since it is not consequent upon any comparison between ourselves and others, but between what we are and what we ought to be—which no man ever was.

WASHINGTON ALLSTON.

Wouldst thou taste to the full the sweetness of life? Then keep thyself low at humility's feet. The sweetest of the cane is the part that grows nearest the earth.

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