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• Meek young men grow up in libraries.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Growing Up, Men, Library

  The American Scholar sec. 2 (1837)

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• It 's wiser being good than bad; It 's safer being meek than fierce; It 's fitter being sane than mad. My own hope is, a sun will pierce The thickest cloud earth ever stretched; That after Last returns the First, Though a wide compass round be fetched.

  Robert Browning

  Clouds, Mad, Earth

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.519, Wordsworth Editions

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• Do not be vexed with those who show pride, or malice, effeminacy, and impatience in their intercourse with you, or others, but , remembering that you yourself are subject to the same and greater sins and passions, pray for them and be meek with them.

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Passion, Pride

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• Some people say that our salvation lies with God, or with God's Son, yet is not the human heart the place where such Divinity is found? Therefore open your heart, and open TO your heart, that you may hear its call to reflect, to be meek, and to be responsible.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Lying, Heart, Son

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from May 29, 2013

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• It was Rachel Carson's famous book 'Silent Spring' that got me involved with the environment. I read it in The New Yorker, in installments. Up to then, I'd thought the main job to do is help the meek inherit the Earth. And I still, that's a job that's got to be done. But I realized if we didn't do something soon, what the meek would inherit would be a pretty poisonous place to live.

  Pete Seeger

  Jobs, Spring, Book

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• You say the character [of Leo Bloom] was meek and insecure, and you could've been describing me as well. I was a very shy person in those days, and working with Zero [Mostel], who was bigger than life, helped me grow. Zero was a strong influence on me.

  Gene Wilder

  Strong, Zero, Character

  Source: keranews.org

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• 'Blessed are the poor in spirit, for they shall see God' suggested to me a heavenly welfare program for the meek. Today that saying reveals an astute insight into egotism, about how those with swollen pride or vanity cannot see anything larger than themselves.

  Huston Smith

  Blessed, Pride, Welfare Programs

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• The least known among the virtues and also the most misunderstood is the virtue of humility. Yet, it is the very groundwork of Christianity. Humility is a grace of the soul that cannot be expressed in words and is only known by experience. It is an unspeakable treasure of God, and only can be called the gift of God. Learn, He said, not from angels, not from men, not from books; but learn from My presence, light, and action within you, that I am meek and humble of heart, and you shall find rest to your souls.

  William Bernard Ullathorne

  Book, Heart, Humble

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• The first song I heard from me was Meek Mill ["I Don't Know"], it was his first single before he went (to jail). I remember the first time I heard it was like eleven thirty at night, and I was like, "Yo, this is crazy!" And, I was smiling from ear to ear.

  PJ Harvey

  Song, Crazy, Night

  "Singer/Songwriter PJ Shares Her Soundtrack For The Come Up". Interview with Todd Davis, www.parlemag.com. September 9, 2016.

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• A meek fellow ... is a real godsend in any gang.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Real, Gang, Fellows

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• The humble and meek are thirsting for lood

  Joe Orton

  Humble

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• Christ, who came meek and mild to save us from pain and suffering, was the One who talked more about hell than any other person in Scripture.

  D. James Kennedy

  Pain, Suffering, Scripture

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• If the Savior were among us today, we would find Him where He always was-ministering to the meek, the downcast, the humble, the distressed, and the poor in spirit. During this Christmas season and always, may we give to Him by loving as He loves.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Humble, Giving, May

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• Friendship with the upright, with the truthful and with the well informed is beneficial. Friendship with those who flatter, with those who are meek and who compromise with principles, and with those who talk cleverly is harmful.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Principles, Truthful

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• Jesus calls us to his rest, and meekness is His method. The meek man cares not at all who is greater than he, for he has long ago decided that the esteem of the world is not worth the effort.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Jesus, Men, Long Ago

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• Oh! why was I born with a different face? why was I not born like the rest of my race? when I look,each one starts! when I speak, I offend; then Im silent & passive & lose every friend. Then my verse I dishonour, my pictures despise, my person degrade & my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; all my talents I bury, and dead is my fame. Im either too low or too highly prized; when elate I m envy'd, when meek Im despis'd

  William Blake

  Race, Different Faces, Envy

  William Blake (2000). “The Selected Poems of William Blake”, p.149, Wordsworth Editions

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• When I was little, I used to go to the local ice-skating rink. In my mind, I always felt like I could twirl and jump, but when I got out onto the ice, I could barely keep my blades straight. When I got older, that's how it was with people: In my mind, I am bold and forthright, but what comes out always seems to be so meek and polite. Even with Evan, my boyfriend for junior and most of senior year, I never quite managed to be that skating, twirling, leaping person I suspected I could be. But today, apparently, I can skate.

  Gayle Forman

  Senior, Years, Ice

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• There is in all visible things an invisible fecundity, a dimmed light, a meek namelessness, a hidden wholeness. This mysterious unity and integrity is wisdom, the mother of us all, "natura naturans." There is in all things an inexhaustible sweetness and purity, a silence that is a fountain of action and joy. It rises up in wordless gentleness, and flows out to me from the unseen roots of all created being.

  Thomas Merton

  Mother, Nature, Integrity

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• What is a church? Let Truth and reason speak, They would reply, "The faithful, pure and meek, From Christian folds, the one selected race, Of all professions, and in every place.

  George Crabbe

  Christian, Race, Faithful

  George Crabbe (1858). “The Poetical Works of George Crabbe”, p.98

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• The good works that really matter require the help of heaven. And the help of heaven requires working past the point of fatigue so far that only the meek and lowly will keep going long enough. The Lord doesn't put us through this test just to give us a grade; he does it because the process will change us.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Past, Long, Giving

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• But when a snowflake, brave and meek,Lights on a rosy maiden's cheek,It starts-"How warm and soft the day!""'T is summer!" and it melts away.

  Mary Mapes Dodge

  Summer, Light, Brave

  Mary Mapes Dodge (1894). “When Life is Young: A Collection of Verse for Boys and Girls”

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• Beware the meek ... for we shall attempt to inherit the Earth.

  Roger Zelazny

  Earth, Meekness

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• That holy, humble, meek, modest, retiring Form, sometimes called the Spirit of Prayer, has been dragged from the closet, and so rudely handled by some of her professed friends, that she has not only lost all her wonted loveliness, but is now stalking the street, in some places, stark mad.

  Asahel Nettleton

  Prayer, Humble, Mad

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 193, 1895.

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• Are we proud and passionate, malicious and revengeful? Is this to be like-minded with Christ, who was meek and lowly?

  John Tillotson

  Passionate, Proud, Christ

  John Tillotson (1820). “Twenty Discourses on the Most Important Subjects: Calculated for Every Class of Readers”, p.70

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• I would not say I'm an aggressive shopper. I want to be; I aspire to be an aggressive shopper. I am a meek, meek shopper.

  Gail Simmons

  Want, Aggressive, Shoppers

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