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«To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honorable, brave, is not to be either manly or womanly; it is to be human»

«Your sheep, that were wont to be so meek and tame and so small eaters, now, as I hear say, be become so great devourers, and so wild, that they eat up and swallow down the very men themselves.»

«Thou, even thou, art to be feared: and who may stand in thy sight when once thou art angry? / Thou didst cause judgment to be heard from heaven; the earth feared, and was still, / When God arose to judgment, to save all the meek of the earth. Selah.»

«Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; / But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.»

«Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes; / That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the same maid, to profane my holy name: / And they lay themselves down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god.»