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"When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with the humble is wisdom." Proverbs 11:2

Humility: Lowliness in mind; a deep sense of one's own unworthiness in the sight of God; self-abasement; freedom from pride and arrogance.

In 1723, Cotton Mather, Boston's most influential minister, was entertaining the young Benjamin Franklin in his study. Mather admired Franklin's voracious appetite for knowledge. One night, as Benjamin was taking his leave, Mather accompanied the youth through a narrow corridor of his house. In the midst of?conversation with the minister, Benjamin suddenly heard Cotton Mather yell "Stoop! Stoop!" However, it was too late: Benjamin slammed his head against a beam straddling the cramped hallway.

Mather never refused an opportunity to expound some good advice. He told the young Franklin: "Let this be a Caution to you not always to hold your head so high; Stoop, young Man, stoop-as you go through the World and you'll miss many hard Thumps."

Franklin did not miss the point. Later he said, "I often think of [Mather's words] when I see pride mortified, and misfortunes brought upon people by their carrying their heads too high."?


Source: http://www.ourfullhouse.com/home/18-daily-life/822-cotton-mather-and-benjamin-franklin-on-pride.html

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