The old and new humility.
[T]he old humility made a man doubtful about his efforts, which might make him work harder. But the new humility makes a man doubtful about his aims, which will make him stop working altogether.
G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy, quoted in The Quotable Chesterton, p. 153..
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