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  • Humility is the softening shadow before the stature of Excellence, And lieth lowly on the ground, beloved and lovely as the violet.

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    Martin Farquhar Tupper (1857). “Complete poetical works: containing: Proverbial philosophy, A thousand lines, Hactenus, Geraldine, and miscellaneous poems. With a portrait of the author”, p.41
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Humility is the softening shadow before the stature of Excellence, And lieth lowly on the ground, beloved and lovely as the violet. - Martin Farquhar Tupper
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