There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.
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What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?
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O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker.
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Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
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Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:
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But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.