Teach me, good Lord:

Not to murmur at the multitude of business or the shortness of
time.
Not to call attention to crowded work or petty fatigues.
Not to gather encouragement from others, lest this should
interfere with purity of motive.
Not to seek praise, respect, gratitude, or regard from superiors
or equals on account of age or past service.
Not to let myself be placed in favorable contrast with another.

~ Edward White Benson, Papers Public and Private.

Such types as the statesman, politician, headmaster, parson,
poet ¢â‚¬ ¦ are continually subject to become what the public
expect them to be rather than what they really are ¢â‚¬ ¦ This is
murder  ¢â‚¬“ murder of the spirit  ¢â‚¬“ and the murderers are the
victim ¢â‚¬â„¢s admirers and friends.

~ Melville Chaning-Pierce, The Kingdom of the Real.

Would-be theologians ¢â‚¬ ¦ must be on their guard lest by
beginning to soon to preach they rather chatter themselves into
Christianity than live themselves into it and find themselves at
home there.

~ Soren Kierkegaard, Journal, July 11, 1838.

The colonial is a usurper who, having come to another ¢â‚¬â„¢s
land and culture  ¢â‚¬Ëœsucceeded not merely in creating a place

for himself, but also in taking away that of the inhabitant,
granting himself astounding privileges to the detriment of
those rightfully entitled to them ¢â‚¬â„¢.

~ Albert Memmi, The Colonizer and the Colonized, 1965, 9.