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Honour, How much we fight with weakness to preserve thee!
Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
Oft times, we must fight a battle, if only to learn to lay down our arms.
Parade your pallor in iniquity.
This was defeat. This was failure; a quiet, ashen world. True humility and obedience, where the knee is bowed to the inevitable, the ring is kissed without pride or restraint.
Implied Subjection, but requir'd with gentle sway, And by her yielded, by him best receiv'd,- Yielded with coy submission, modest pride, And sweet, reluctant, amorous delay.
He who kneels the most, stands the best.
When the stakes are high, bow down low.
Other worshipful objects were content with worship; men, women, God, all let one kneel prostrate; but this form, were it only the shape of a white lampshade looming on a wicker table, roused one to perpetual combat, challenged one to a fight in which one was bound to be worsted.
Humility is not a weak and timid quality; it must be carefully distinguished from a groveling spirit.
Stop, would you kindly? 'Would you kindly'. Powerful phrase. Familiar phrase? Sit, would you kindly? Stand, would you kindly? Run! Stop! Turn. A man chooses, a slave obeys. Kill! A man chooses! A slave obeys! OBEY!
When faced with defeat, rise to your feet!
Pray on bow knees,
No action could be lower or more futile than for one person to throw upon another the burden of his abdication of choice.
He who kneels may rise again, blade in hand. He who will not kneel stays dead, stiff legs and all.
Kill, Destroy, Sack, Tell lie; how much you want after victory nobody asks why?
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Oaths are the fossils of piety.
Get up, Shahrzad al-Khayzuran. You kneel before no one. Least of all me.
Surrender, but don't give yourself away
Acknowledge your folly or depart from my dominions.
Humiliation sets armies marching, empires falling, breaks hearts and minds and souls.
Cross my wooden leg, swear on my glass eye.
The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
Take an act of magnanimity that is difficult, quiet, muted, without splendour, where you're slandered, where there's much sacrifice and not a drop of glory.
Hungry wailing standeth not aloof.
Humility Preceeds Glory
What valor were it, when a cur doth grin, for one to thrust his hand between his teeth, when he might spurn him with his foot away?
Remorse weeps tears of blood.
Courage never to submit of yield.
I am disgraced, impeached, and baffled here,
Pierced to the soul with slander's venomed spear.
The man who, for party, forsakes righteousness, goes down; and the armed battalions of God march over him.
Yield to him who opposes you; by yielding you conquer.
Kneels? Falters? Look to the night sky, foolish man, and gauge the victor in the contest between Dark and Light.
to the foe in the field you need not yield"
Act of Grace my former state; how soon Would highth recal high thoughts, how soon unsay What feign'd submission swore: ease would recant Vows made in pain, as violent and void. For never can true reconcilement grow Where wounds of deadly hate have peirc'd so deep: Which
Humiliation is the sport of the petty
To bend and prostrate oneself to express sentiments of respect, appears to be a natural motion.
Surrender to God.
Distraught I seize mine arms ... And with my comrades hasten to the hold: frenzy and anger urge my headlong will, and death methinks how comely, sword in hand!
You bow to no one,
Do not betray the people.
In most cases, when the lion, weary of obeying its master, has torn and devoured him, its nerves are pacified and it looks round for another master before whom to grovel.
Obedience and resignation are our personal offerings upon the altar of duty.
Obedient to constraint, I was compelled to submit
Thou content to leave thy prayer in his hands, who knows when to give, and how to give, and what to give, and what to withhold. So pleading, earnestly, importunately, yet with humility and resignation, thou shalt surely prevail.
That deed is not well done of which a man must repent, and the reward of which he receives crying and with a tearful face.
I kneel to my Lord because I am such a failure. I pray, I hope, I look to the Gospels.
This is what we are made for: promises, pledges, and sworn oaths of obedience.
Stand before your god, bow before your king, kneel before your man.
Thy money, thy office, thy reputation are nothing; put away these phantom clothings, and stand like an athlete stripped for the battle.
May my weakness not drive me to my knees in despair, but raise me up to You, Lord.
Confront, bend, rise but never abandon...
I do not bow. I do not obey. I do not 'worship.'
Why would you do that?" I asked as he gasped. "Why would you hand me a lever to your pain?" I walked forward, bending the finger down, and he backed before me, into the crowd of his supporters, crying out, bowing low to lessen the sharp angle at which I held the digit.
I am begging you." My arm lowered and tugged as he fell to his knees. "I'm begging you, Abby. Don't do this."
"Let me go, Travis."
Travis was on his knees, palms flat on the pavement.
The sight of him on the ground made the tears I'd been holding back rush down my face.
What whip lashed them to their knees in shame and submission? The worship of the word We.
I hope that when I commence that oath, my tongue may cleave to the roof of my mouth. If I ever sign one line to show allegiance, I hope my arm falls paralyzed to my side ... Get out. I'm so disgusted I can't endure your presence any longer.
I shall not lie!" Eilonwy cried, "not for this traitor and deserter."
"It is not for him," Taran said quietly, "but for the sake of our quest."
"It isn't right," Eilonwy began, tears starting in her eyes.
"We do not speak of rightness," Taran answered. "We speak of a task to be finished.
I speak the password primeval; I give the sign of democracy.
The greatest of all humiliations is that disgrace delivered without a word being spoken, or a hand ever raised.
Worship With Your Vote.
Two hundred thousand Americans sent in their WIN enlistment forms. Now that the campaign season was upon us, a reeling Republican Party had something to sell: collective obligation, in the key of homespun earnestness.
Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory.
Let them call me rebel and welcome, I feel no concern from it; but I should suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul by swearing allegiance to one whose character is that of a sottish, stupid, stubborn, worthless, brutish man.
Lose this battle so we can win the war.
... to gently lie and prove the lie true ... everything is finally a promise ... what seems a lie is a ramshackle need, wishing to be born. ...
What hands do I possess?
What sight!
What deliberations do I confess?
What plight!
Money lost
little lost. Honour lost
much lost. Pluck lost
all lost.
There is a lovely root to the word humiliation - from the latin word humus, meaning soil or ground. When we are humiliated, we are in effect returning to the ground of our being.
All we ask you to do is submit to it, and, if you scream or moan, to agree ahead of time that it will be in vain,
Still stands thine ancient sacrifice - An humble and a contrite heart.
Applaud to those who withstand the shards of compromise. May laurel leaves sit on your head, and life-long pride be yours for the taking.
Let us be humble and keep ourselves down: - Obedience! Humility! Detachment!
I still held fast to my determination to become a minister; it still seemed to me that that was my duty. I had pledged myself, in my prayers I had given my word to God. How could I therefore break my vow?
At the next vacancy for God, if I am elected, I shall forgive last the delicately wounded who, having been slugged no harder than anyone else, never got up again, neither to fight back, nor to finger their jaws in painful admiration.
Think not that humility is weakness; it shall supply the marrow of strength to thy bones. Stoop and conquer; bow thyself and become invincible.
Pride sings and dances; humility sighs.
If you can stand your ground, I'll stay on my knees...
Wisely reconsidered and let the hand
In politics, sometimes you have to lie, or you make a promise that you cannot keep.
Let us once lose our oaths to find ourselves,
Or else we lose ourselves to keep our oaths
Say a prayer for the pretender, who started out so young and strong only to surrender.
Turn thy crown upside down! You need to feel how it is to kneel as those less fortunate than your noble deal.
...and Gareth bowed himself with all obedience to the King, and wrought
All kind of service with a noble ease
That graced the lowliest act in doing it.
it is not surprising that some, such as the historian John R. Vile, suggest we consider the concession as a form of military surrender or even a funeral oration. Just as after a war, the public wants peace after a presidential campaign. They hope that politicians will emulate that most
If I lose my honor,
I lose myself: better I were not yours
Than yours so branchless.
Honour forbid! at whose unrivall'd shrine 105 Ease, pleasure, virtue, all our sex resign. Methinks already I your tears survey, Already hear the horrid things they say, Already see you a degraded toast, And all your honour in a whisper lost! 110 How shall I, then, your helpless fame
Win with grace, lose with dignity!
My arm was extended upward pleading for peace and the Union of our Fathers. When my hand came down, it fell slowly and sadly by the side of a Secessionist.
To relinquish yourself carries no shame.
Give obedience where 'tis truly owed.
It often seems as though the silent, humble servant is secretly wiser and more discerning than the haughty master; yet through dutiful (and sometimes insecure) surrender he continues to serve and carry out petty orders in loyal acquiesce.
There are terrible temptations that it requires strength--strength and
courage--to yield to. To stake all one's life on one throw--whether the
stake be power or pleasure I care not--there is no weakness in that.
There is a horrible, a terrible, courage.
Don't kneel to me, that is not right. You must kneel to God only, and thank Him for the liberty you will hereafter enjoy.
Flattery is the infantry of negotiation.
Through surrender the aspirant's ego is effaced, and ... grace ... pours down upon him like a torrential rain.
Leaning on Him, make with reverent meekness His own thy will.
Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.
Betray mean terror of ridicule, thou shalt find fools enough to mock thee; but answer thou their language with contempt, and the scoffers will lick thy feet.
Speech one may regret,
Silence no sorrow begets,
Humility be born before honour,
Soft answer turns wrath's corner