humility (n.)
- acquiescence
- altruism
- amenability
- bashfulness
- commitment
- compliance
- consecration
- dedication
- devotion
- diffidence
- disinterest
- disinterestedness
- gentleness
- humbleness
- inferiority
- lowliness
- meekness
- mildness
- minority
- modesty
- nonresistance
- obedience
- passiveness
- passivity
- peaceableness
- quietism
- quietness
- resignation
- sacrifice
- self-abasement
- self-abnegation
- self-denial
- self-effacement
- self-sacrifice
- selflessness
- servility
- shyness
- subjection
- submission
- submissiveness
- subordination
- subservience
- tameness
- timidity
- timorousness
- unassumingness
- unobtrusiveness
- unpretentiousness
- unselfishness
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more,
Or close the wall up with our English dead!
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility;
But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger:
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood.
Humility is a virtue all preach, none practise; and yet everybody is content to hear.
You will find angling to be like the virtue of humility, which has a calmness of spirit and a world of other blessings attending upon it.
And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin
Is pride that apes humility.
He passed a cottage with a double coach-house,—
A cottage of gentility;
And he owned with a grin,
That his favourite sin
Is pride that apes humility.
They are proud in humility; proud in that they are not proud.
Humility, that low, sweet root
From which all heavenly virtues shoot.
