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Our humiliations work out our most elevated joys. The way that a drop of rain comes to sing in the leaf that rustles in the top of the tree all the summer long, is by going down to the roots first and from thence ascending to the bough.

(H. W. Beecher.)

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KJV: Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.

WEB: doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;