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Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. -- Don Marquis
The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights. -- J. Paul Getty
God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart. -- Izaak Walton
And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, and the year smiles as it draws near its death. -- William C. Bryant
It's going to be fun to watch and see how long the meek can keep the earth once they inherit it. -- Kin Hubbard
I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when they are exalted. -- Samuel Butler
If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence be known. -- W. E. B. Du Bois
Meek Mill - my homies used to call me 'Meek Millions,' and at the time I didn't have no millions, so I ain't really want to be called 'Millions,' so I just shortened it down to Meek Mill. 'Meek Milli,' my friends used to call me. -- Meek Mill
The humble and meek are thirsting for blood. -- Joe Orton
Be brave if you lose and meek if you win. -- Harvey Penick
In New York City, the meek don't inherit the earth. The big mouth does. -- Barbara Corcoran
Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; I am your friend, but never your possession. -- Vera Brittain
Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; / I am your friend, but never your possession. -- Vera Brittain
Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind. -- Langston Hughes
My dream tour would be like, me, Cole, Drake, Sean, Meek. I think that would be dope, something like that; big venues. -- Wale
As for ourselves, yes, we must be meek, bear injustice, malice, rash judgment. We must turn the other cheek, give up our cloak, go a second mile. -- Dorothy Day
I listen to a lot of Tupac and Biggie Smalls. Old school songs. Rick Ross. I listen to a guy ASAP Rocky. I like different kinds of music. I always have. It motivates me before games... A Tupac playlist or a Meek Mill playlist. It varies. -- Trey Burke
Meek Walton's heavenly memory. -- William Wordsworth
Meek young men grow up in libraries. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Meek-eyed parents hasten down the ramps To greet their offspring, terrible from camps. -- Phyllis McGinley
My personal favorite records might have to be "Keep It Rollin" and "360" featuring Meek Mill...oh and the Intro Is Murder! -- Kid Ink
Meek Nature's evening comment on the shows That for oblivion take their daily birth From all the fuming vanities of earth. -- William Wordsworth
My hero is Michelle Williams, who I grew close to when we did 'Meek's Cutoff.' She's an extraordinary actor and mom. -- Zoe Kazan
Meek young men grow up in colleges and believe it is their duty to accept the views which books have given, and grow up slaves. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Meek and drake happen to be two of the young kings with strong voices and followings that give people hope I hope they know this n b smart! -- Styles P
This is God's beauty!The Elegant nature of Esther,The Meek nature of Moses,The Pius nature of Paul,The Passionate nature of Peter,The Just nature of Jesus and thenThe wise nature of you! -- Israelmore Ayivor
Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries, when they wrote these books. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'm not meek at all. -- Paula Radcliffe
Gentle Jesus, meek and mild... -- Charles Wesley
And the meek shall inherit the earth, -- Geddy Lee
I am not really ever accused of being shy or meek. -- Marisol Nichols
What if the meek inherited the Earth and we had to defend ourselves from Martians? -- Robert Orben
The English are mentioned in the Bible; Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. -- Mark Twain
Humility, I have learned, must never be confused with meekness. Humility is being open to the ideas of others. -- Simon Sinek
To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honorable, brave, is not to be either manly or womanly; it is to be humane. -- Jane Harrison
The Saviour reigned in all their hearts, and they successfully copied the pattern of meekness and gentleness, which he had left them. -- John Strachan
Why, in our 'free' country, do Americans meekly stand aside and let the state limit our choices, even when we are dying? -- John Stossel
Let the professors of Christianity recommend their religion by deeds of benevolence - by Christian meekness - by lives of temperance and holiness. -- Richard Mentor Johnson
Even as we seek to be meek and to avoid contention, we must not compromise or dilute our commitment to the truths we understand. -- Dallin H. Oaks
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
The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility. -- Vaclav Havel
To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective action both resorts to power and engages conscience. -- Barbara Deming
Jesus sowed good seeds into the lives of the people He touched. His walk was humble, meek, giving, and forgiving, and He taught His disciples to be the same way. -- Monica Johnson
Once there was a boy so meek and modest, he was awarded a Most Humble badge. The next day, it was taken away because he wore it. Here endeth the lesson. -- Nancy Gibbs
Even talking, I'm super-loud. I could never have that kind of meek, little wispy whimsical lavender and lace voice. It comes from my body. There's no way I can fight it. -- Beth Ditto
The public school system: "Usually a twelve year sentence of mind control. Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and compromise, destroying the exercise of intellectual inquiry, twisting it instead into meek subservience to authority." -- Walter Karp
The humble, meek, merciful, and just are everywhere of one religion; and when death has taken off the mask they will know one another, though the diverse liveries they wear here make them strangers. -- William Penn
I love the melodies in the Old Testament, how preachers highlight them when they read from the Scripture. But I was influenced forever by the New Testament. I love the Beatitudes, informing us that the meek shall inherit the earth. -- Maya Angelou
The meek man will attain a place of soul rest. As he walks on in meekness he will be happy to let God defend him. The old struggle to defend himself is over. He has found the peace which meekness brings. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
That's what my mother did. And my father was the first person she'd met who treated her kindly. She was terrified of men, and she married a very meek, kind, dear man. And she had the upper hand. She ruled the roost. -- Lynn Johnston
How silently, how silently The wonderous gift is given! So God imparts to human hearts The blessings of his heaven. No ear may hear his coming, But in this world of sin, Where meek souls will receive him still, The dear Christ enters in. -- Phillips Brooks
The whole point of the kingdom of God is Jesus has come to bear witness to the true truth, which is nonviolent. When God wants to take charge of the world, he doesn't send in the tanks. He sends in the poor and the meek. -- N. T. Wright
The meek man is not a human mouse afflicted with a sense of his own inferiority. He has accepted God's estimate of his own life: In himself, nothing; In God, everything. He knows well that the world will never see him as God sees him and he has stopped caring. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
One of the greatest investments of our lifetime has been New York City real estate, and investors made the highest returns when they bought stuff during the 1970s and 1980s when people were getting mugged. The lesson is that you make the most money when you buy stuff that's out of consensus. -- Mary Meeker
Right gladly would He free them from their misery, but He knows only one way: He will teach them to be like himself, meek and lowly, bearing with gladness the yoke of His Father's will. This in the one, the only right, the only possible way of freeing them from their sin, the cause of their unrest. -- George MacDonald
The knight is a man of blood and iron, a man familiar with the sight of smashed faces and the ragged stumps of lopped-off limbs; he is also a demure, almost a maidenlike, guest in hall, a gentle, modest, unobtrusive man. He is not a compromise or happy mean between ferocity and meekness; he is fierce to the nth and meek to the nth. -- C. S. Lewis
Even as we seek to be meek and to avoid contention, we must not compromise or dilute our commitment to the truths we understand. We must not surrender our positions or our values. The gospel of Jesus Christ and the covenants we have made inevitably cast us as combatants in the eternal contest between truth and error. there is no middle ground in that contest. -- Dallin H. Oaks
Both gentleness and meekness are born of power, not weakness. There is a pseudo-gentlene ss that is effeminate, and there is a pseudo-meekness that is cowardly. But a Christian is to be gentle and meek because those are Godlike virtues... We should never be afraid, therefore, that the gentleness of the Spirit means weakness of character. It takes strength, God's strength, to be truly gentle. -- Jerry Bridges
I think it's way harder when you have success, 'cause people tend to not treat you the same or look at you the same because they see the success or the money you make. -- Meek Mill
For Members of Congress, we are saying here on the Democratic side of the aisle we are not going to vote for another pay increase for Members of Congress until the American people get an increase. -- Kendrick Meek
Americans simply ask for, not just Democrats in the House but also the Senate has asked the President for a clear plan as it relates to dealing with the issue of Iraq and our troops and making sure that we can bring families together in the very near future. -- Kendrick Meek
Alas! when passion is both meek and wild! -- John Keats
The humble and meek are thirsting for lood -- Joe Orton
A graceful heart is a virtue of the meek. -- Suzy Kassem
Even the blind and meek and voiceless have gods. -- Terry Pratchett
The militant not the meek shall inherit the earth! -- Mother Jones
That meek darkness be thy mirror, and thy whole remembrance. -- Dionysius of Halicarnassus
A meek fellow ... is a real godsend in any gang. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Meanwhile, the meek are a long time inheriting the earth. -- Bob Edwards
Beware the meek ... for we shall attempt to inherit the Earth. -- Roger Zelazny
Blessed are the meek, for to them we shall say "attaboy". -- Christopher Moore
Even from the first it is meek to seek the impossible. -- Sophocles
The meek shall inherit the earth - a 6 foot plot above them. -- Robert A. Heinlein
The meek may one day inherit the earth, but not the headlines. -- Indira Gandhi
The meek shall inherit the earth, but they'll never increase market share. -- William G. McGowan
The meek shall inherit the earth - they are too weak to refuse -- NA
Let the meek inherit the earth -- they have it coming to them. -- James Thurber
Let the meek inherit the earth - they have it coming to them -- James Thurber
The meek may inherit the earth, but they don't get in to Harvard. -- Robin Williams
The meek shall inherit the earth. They won't have the nerve to refuse it. -- Jackie Vernon
Let the meek have the kingdom of heaven. The strong shall rule on earth. -- Jennifer Armintrout
Let the meek have the kingdom of heaven. The strong shall rule on earth. -- Jennifer Armintrout
The meek may inherit the earth, but they wont get the ball from me. -- Charles Barkley
The meek shall inherit the earth. The rest of us are going to the stars. -- Peter Diamandis
LOGANIMITY, n. The disposition to endure injury with meek forbearance while maturing a plan of revenge. -- Ambrose Bierce
Gentle Jesus, meek and mild' is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels. -- George Bernard Shaw
The hard part about one being tough yet meek is the illusion of being a punching bag. -- Criss Jami
The meek may inherit the earth, but at the moment it belongs to the conceited. Like me. -- Cassandra Clare
O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, / That I am meek and gentle with these butchers! -- William Shakespeare
My philosophy of life is that the meek shall inherit nothing but debasement, frustration, and ignoble deaths. -- Harlan Ellison
Anyone who had ever read a novel knew that governesses were supposed to be meek and downtrodden. -- Lisa Kleypas
Our true wisdom is to embrace with meek docility, and without reservation, whatever the holy scriptures have delivered. -- John Calvin
The phantom-host has faded quite, Splendor and Terror gone-- Portent or promise--and gives way To pale, meek Dawn. -- Herman Melville
A meek spirit gives no trouble willingly to any: a quiet spirit bears all wrongs without being troubled. -- John Wesley
The tree laden with fruits always bends low. If you wish to be great, be lowly and meek. -- Ramakrishna
It's wiser being good than bad; It's safer being meek than fierce: It's fitter being sane than mad. -- Robert Browning
I am a song bird, I am a meek song bird, I offer my prayer to the Lord. -- Guru Nanak
Gentle Jesus, meek and mild, Look upon a little child; Pity my simplicity, Suffer me to come to thee. -- Charles Wesley
Jesus said the meek would inherit the earth, but so far all we've gotten is Minnesota and North Dakota. -- Garrison Keillor
Though the meek shall inherit the earth, but don't forget: The poor are the ones who inherit the debt. -- Kelvin Mercer
To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. -- Barbara Deming
Nothing in this low and ruined world bears the meek impress of the Son of God so surely as forgiveness. -- Alice Cary
To achieve charity, we must submit, become patient, meek, humble. . . . We must exercise the love of God as a power. -- F. Enzio Busche
Are we proud and passionate, malicious and revengeful? Is this to be like-minded with Christ, who was meek and lowly? -- John Tillotson
The people have the power to redeem the work of fools. Upon the meek the graces shower, it's decreed the people rule. -- Patti Smith
And sometimes when the night is slow The wretched and the meek We gather up our hearts and go A Thousand Kisses Deep. -- Leonard Cohen
Spread abroad the name of Jesus in humility and with a meek heart; show him your feebleness, and he will become your strength. -- Thomas Merton
The anger of a meek man is like fire struck out of steel, hard to be got out, and when it is, soon gone. -- Matthew Henry
In the Age of Kali the meek and helpless will be preyed upon without mercy, and there will be a surplus of AK-47s. -- Ian McDonald
Though all the guns be silenced,each soldier in his home,There is no peace till Love comes,till the meek may safely roam. -- C. P. Klapper
There are eyes half defiant, Half meek and compliant; Black eyes, with a wondrous, witching charm To bring us good or to work with harm. -- Phoebe Cary
Love is a consistent passion to give, not a meek persistent hope to receive. The only demand of life is the privilege to love all. -- Chinmayananda Saraswati
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
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
The proposition that the meek (that is the adaptable and serviceable), inherit the earth is not merely a wishful sentiment of religion, but an iron law of evolution. -- Kenneth E. Boulding
By science calmed, over the peaceful soul, Bright with eternal Wisdom's lucid ray, Peace, meek of eye, extends her soft control, And drives the puny Passions far away. -- Humphry Davy
i been meek, and hard like an oak, i seen pretty people disappear like smoke. friends will arrive, friends will disappear. if you want me, honey baby, i'll be here. -- Bob Dylan
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
Tis not in battles that from youth we train The Governor who must be wise and good, And temper with the sternness of the brain Thoughts motherly, and meek as womanhood. -- William Wordsworth
Live loath'd and long, Most smiling, smooth, detested parasites, Courteous destroyers, affable wolves, meek bears, You fools of fortune, trencher friends, time flies Cap and knee slaves, vapors, and minute jacks. -- William Shakespeare

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