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The humblest is the peer of the most powerful. -- John Marshall Harlan
The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others. -- Henry Ward Beecher
The humblest occupation has in it materials of discipline for the highest heaven. -- Frederick William Robertson
You have nothing that the humblest worker has not a right to have also. -- Rose Schneiderman
The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature. -- William Hazlitt
When one starts writing a book, especially a novel, even the humblest person in the world hopes to become Homer. -- Umberto Eco
The humblest person in this world is the astrophysicist. Because we are face to face with our ignorance every single day. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires. -- Khalil Gibran
The humblest citizen of all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. -- William Jennings Bryan
The feet of the humblest may walk in the field Where the feet of the Holiest trod, This, then, is the marvel to mortals revealed. -- Phillips Brooks
A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess. -- A. Philip Randolph
Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul, that is, in the force of thought, moral principle, and love, and this may be found in the humblest condition of life. -- William Ellery Channing
Mr. Lincoln's elevation shows that in America every station in life may be honorable; that there is no barrier against the humblest; but that merit, wherever it exists, has the opportunity to be known. -- Matthew Simpson
No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness. -- Alan Alda
To the humblest among them, who may be listening to me now, I want to say that the masterpiece to which you are paying historic homage this evening is a painting which he has saved. -- Andre Malraux
The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it. -- James M. Barrie
After a prosperous, but to me very wearisome, voyage, we came at last into port. Immediately on landing I got together my few effects; and, squeezing myself through the crowd, went into the nearest and humblest inn which first met my gaze. -- Adelbert von Chamisso
It is the advertiser who provides the paper for the subscriber. It is not to be disputed, that the publisher of a newspaper in this country, without a very exhaustive advertising support, would receive less reward for his labor than the humblest mechanic. -- Alexander Hamilton
Sometimes magnificent visual art takes root in the humblest of soils. Advertisements painted on old barns, tattoos, fruit crate labels, hot rod embellishments - all these media and many other non-galleried forms have hosted and fostered esthetic delights that satisfy any rigorous definition of art. -- Paul Di Filippo
This is not a contest between persons. The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. I come to you in defense of a cause as holy as the cause of liberty - the cause of humanity. -- William Jennings Bryan
Go be the next humblest version of yourself. -- Bob Goff
The highest wisdom adopts the humblest of bodies. -- Antoni Tapies
The humblest star twinkles most in the darkest night. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them. -- Louisa May Alcott
The wisest man may always learn something from the humblest peasant. -- Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Making someone happy is perhaps the humblest way of approaching happiness. -- Antonio Gala
The humblest workman has his place, Which no one else can fill. -- Maud Lindsay
There is a tear for all who die, A mourner o'er the humblest grave. -- Lord Byron
Love is the humblest yet the most powerful force that the human being has. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely. -- Louisa May Alcott
Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable. -- Mahatma Gandhi
God chooses as His instrument the humblest and weakest of His creatures to fulfill Himself. -- Mahatma Gandhi
When spring comes to Paris the humblest mortal alive must feel that he dwells in paradise. -- Henry Miller
The humblest craft that floats makes its appeal to a seaman by the faithfulness of her life. -- Joseph Conrad
The dark, uneasy world of family life - where the greatest can fail and the humblest succeed. -- Randall Jarrell
The universe has no prince or king that it [Rome] would consider equal to its humblest citizen. -- Pierre Corneille
The common growth of Mother Earth Suffices me,-her tears, her mirth, Her humblest mirth and tears. -- William Wordsworth
The humblest praise most, while cranks & malcontents praise least. Praise almost seems to be inner health made audible -- C. S. Lewis
This country can have no more democracy than it accords and guarantees to the humblest and weakest citizen. -- James Weldon Johnson
Mountain gorses, do ye teach us . . . . That the wisest word man reaches Is the humblest he can speak? -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
It is very rare that you meet with obstacles in this world, which the humblest man has not faculties to surmount. -- Henry David Thoreau
Even the humblest mammal's strong sexual, parental, and social instincts give rise to 'do unto others as yourself' and 'love thy neighbor as thyself'. -- Charles Darwin
The true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note. -- Igor Stravinsky
True emotions and sincere words never perish. The great heart of humanity gladly receives and embalms every true utterance of the humblest of its offspring. -- Elias Lyman Magoon
Every man is a diary in which he writes one story while intending to write another. His humblest moment is when he compares the two -- Hugh B. Brown
In the game of thrones, even the humblest pieces can have wills of their own. Sometimes they refuse to make the moves you've planned for them. -- George R. R. Martin
The biggest corporation, like the humblest private citizen, must be held to strict compliance with the will of the people as expressed in the fundamental law. -- Theodore Roosevelt
Complete independence through truth and non-violence means the independence of every unit, be it the humblest of the nation, without distinction of race, colour or creed. -- Mahatma Gandhi
For a woman to be at once a coquette and a bigot is more than the humblest of husbands can bear; she should mercifully choose between the two. -- Jean de la Bruyere
Never be afraid to bring the transcendent mysteries of our faith, Christ's life and death and resurrection, to the help of the humblest and commonest of human wants. -- Phillips Brooks
The word well spoken, the deed fitly done, even by the feeblest or humblest, cannot help but have their effect. More or less, the effect is inevitable and eternal. -- Albert Pike
Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul, that is, in the force of thought, moral principle, and love, and this may be found in the humblest condition of life -- William Ellery Channing
The noblest lord is ushered in By the practicing physician, And the humblest lout is ushered out By a certified mortician. And in between, they find their foyers Alive with summonses from lawyers. -- Ogden Nash
Our Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens. In respect of civil rights, all citizens are equal before the law. The humblest is the peer of the most powerful. -- John Marshall
I believe in the complete freedom of thought and speech - alike for the humblest man and the mightiest, and in the utmost freedom of conduct that is consistent with living in organized society. -- H. L. Mencken

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