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Kingdom of God will surely come upon someone if glory of man leaves him

Beware ! Discipline goes to two different directions : success and self glory. Self glory is the biggest failure of life.

It's not what you have on the outside that glitters in light, it's what you have on the inside that shines in the dark.

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

- Why you?- (...) I__ the best.- Modest of you.- I am the best. Modesty has nothing to say about it.

You cannot be truly humble, unless you truly believe that life can and will go on without you.

Now, who else speaks for Perdido Beach?__ouncing Bette said, __am Temple here went into a burning building to rescue a little girl. He can speak for me, anyway.__here was a murmur of agreement.__eah, Sam is a hero for real,_ a voice said.__e could have died,_ another voice seconded.__eah, Sam__ the guy.__aine__ smile came and disappeared so quickly, Sam wasn__ sure it had happened. For that millisecond it was a look of triumph. Caine walked straight up to Sam, open and forthright, hand extended.__here are probably better people than me,_ Sam said, backing away.

Some people hate people who are overconfident, only because their overconfidence reminds them of their underconfidence.

Modesty was hardly a priority in her mind until now. Now she had been cast from Hell and again knew shame.

For the gaming fishermen there was the Whatoosie River and its native cocka-snoek, the main game fish of the resident Skegg__ Valley Dynamite Fishing Club. Cocka-snoek were wily and tough and rather too bright for mere fish. You wouldn__ catch much with a rod around here. Many inexperienced visitors would find the bait stolen from their hooks, which punctuated the discovery that their lines had somehow got snagged and tangled irretrievably around some underwater obstruction _ sometimes tied together with neat little bows. Often, several direct hits with hand grenades were needed to stun the creatures long enough just to catch them, gut them and fry them, but these former military types had become experts at it. For a modest fee, tours could be arranged via the booking office, which included an overnight stay on the banks of the river where one could drop off to a great night__ sleep after a satisfying meal of cocka-snoek done on an open fire, and the sound the bits of shrapnel made rattling in your stomach.

What I will no longer accept is the mediocre life of a modest little gentleman.

With a modest amount of looks and talent and more than a modicum of serendipity, I've managed to stretch my 15 minutes of fame into more than half a century of good fortune.

Beware ! Heart is too small to feel happy but soul is too big to take glory