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 380 HUMANITY HUMILITY

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Ah me, why did they build my house by the road to the market town? Rabindranath Tagore—Gardener. 4. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Foss) 2 The lintel low enough to keep out pomp and pride; The threshold high enough to turn deceit aside; The doorband strong enough from robbers to defend; This door will open at a touch to welcome every friend. Henry Van Dyke—Inscription far a Friend's House. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 380 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = A host jn himself. Wellington. Of Lord John Russell. Related by Samuel Rogers. (1839) Paraphrase of Homer's epithet of Ajax. See {{sc|Pope}}'s trans, of Iliad. III. 293. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = }}

HOUSE (See Home, Hospitality) HUMANITY (See also {{sc|Philanthropy}})

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Love, hope, fear, faith—these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character. Robert Browning—Paracelsus. Sc. 3. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 5 | text = An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path. But he that has humanity, forewarned, Will turn aside and let the reptile live. | author = Cowper | work = Task. Bk. VI. | place = | note = | topic = | page = 380 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Wen you see a man in woe, Walk right up and say "hullo." Say "hullo" and "how d'ye do," "How's the world a-usin' you?" Wen you travel through the strange Country t'other side the range, Then the souls you've cheered will know Who you be, an' say "hullo." Sam Walter Foss—Hullo. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 380 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = He held his seat; a friend to human race. Homer—Iliad. Bk. VI. L. 18 | note = {{sc|Pope}}'s trans. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 380 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Respect us, human, and relieve us, poor. Homer—Odyssey. Bk. IX. L. 338 | note = {{sc|Pope}}'s trans. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 380 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Over the brink of it Picture it—think of it, Dissolute man. Lave in it—drink of it Then, if you can. Hood—Bridge of Sighs. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 380 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Oh, God! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap! Hood—Song of a Shirt. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = For He, who gave this vast machine to roll, Breathed Life in them, in us a Reasoning Soul; That kindred feelings might our state improve, And mutual wants conduct to mutual love. Juvenal—Satire XV. L. 203. Every human heart is human. | author = Longfellow | work = Hiawatha. Introduction. L. 91. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 380 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Laborin' man an' laborin' woman Hev one glory an' one shame; Ev'ythin' thet's done inhuman Injers all on 'em the same. | author = Lowell | work = The BigUrw Papers. First Series. No. 1. St. 10. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 380 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = It is good to be often reminded of the inconsistency of human nature, and to learn to look without wonder or disgust on the weaknesses which are found in the strongest minds. Macaulay—Warren Hastings. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 380 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = For nothing human foreign was to him. Thomson—To the Memory of Lord Talbot. Translation of "Humani nihil a me alienum puto." For the interesting and inspiring thing about America, gentlemen, is that she asks nothing for herself except what she has a right to ask for humanity itself. Woodrow Wilson—Speech, at the luncheon of the Mayor of New York, May 17, 1915. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 380 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels. Wordsworth—Hart4eap Well. Pt. IL is But hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity. Wordsworth—Tintern Abbey. HUMILITY Lowliness is the base of every virtue, And he who goes the lowest builds the safest. Bailey—Festus. Sc. Home. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 380 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = He saw a cottage with a double coach-house, A cottage of gentility! And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin Is pride thtt apes humility. Coleridge—Devil's Walk. Original title, Devil's Thoughts. Written jointly by Coleridge and SouTHEY. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Southey}} under {{sc|Devil}}) | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = I am well aware that I am the 'umblest persongoing* * * let the other be where he may. | author = Dickens | work = David Copperfield. | place = Vol. I. Ch. XVI. | topic = Humility | page = 380 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = 'Umble we are, 'umble we have been, 'unable we shall ever be. | author = Dickens | work = David Copperfield. | place = Vol. I. Ch. XVII. | topic = | page = 380 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Parvum parva decent. Humble things become the humble. Horace—Epistles. I. 7. 44. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 380 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = God hath sworn to lift on high Who sinks himself by true humility. Keble—Miscellaneous Poems. At Hooker's Tomb. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 380 }}