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Boastfulness, the worst of all pests.

Who thinks of humility? Who esteems it and studies to acquire it? What is all this but a vain delusion?

Let us begin by acquiring that patient humility ourselves which we so desire to see in others, remembering that it is not through the patience and humility of others that we will be saved but by our own.

Concluding prayer for Meditation #7: "Let not the foot of pride come to me (Psalm 35 [36]:12. Grant O my God, that I may be humble. Make me holy, yet ignorant of holiness; for if I should learn how to know or even to imagine myself holy I should become vain; and through vanity should lose all humility and holiness."