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It appears to me that humility is the truth. I know not whether I am humble, but I know that I see the truth in all things.

I have understood what true glory is. He whose Kingdom is not of this world showed me that the only enviable royalty consists in loving ''to be unknown and esteemed as nothing'', and finding our joy in contempt of self. I wished that like the Face of Jesus, mine might be as it were hidden and despised. ''That none upon earth might esteem me.'' I thirsted to suffer and to be forgotten.