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Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self.

Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self.

T. S. Eliot
Philosophical, Humility, Thinking
"Shakespeare and the Stoicism of Seneca" (1927)

The only wisdom we can hope to acquire Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless. The houses are all gone under the sea. The dancers are all gone under the hill.

T. S. Eliot
Humility, Sea, House
1940 Four Quartets,'East Coker', pt.2.

Do not let me hear Of the wisdom of old men, but rather of their folly, Their fear of fear and frenzy, their fear of possession, Of belonging to another, or to others, or to God. The only wisdom we can hope to acquire Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless.

T. S. Eliot
Humility, Men, Endless
1940 Four Quartets,'East Coker', pt.2.

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