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The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought our weaknesses as good as other people’s virtues.
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The crimson glow of modesty o’erspread Her cheek, and gave new lustre to her charms.
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The gravest events dawn with no more noise than the morning star makes in rising. All great developments complete themselves in the world and modestly wait in silence, praising themselves never, and announcing themselves not at all. We must be sensitive, and sensible, if we would see the beginnings and endings of great things. That is our part.
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The greatest ornament of an illustrious life is modesty and humility, which go a great way in the character even of the most exalted princes.
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The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf.
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The modest man has everything to gain, and the arrogant man everything to lose; for modesty has always to deal with generosity, and arrogance with envy.
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The modest person is usually admired, if people ever hear of them.
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The modesty’s a candle to thy merit.
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The violet droops its soft and bashful brow, But from its heart sweet incense fills the air;– So rich within–so pure without–art thou, With modest mien and soul of virtue rare.
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The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
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There’s a lot to be said for the fellow who doesn’t say it himself.
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True modesty avoids everything that is criminal; false modesty everything that is unfashionable.
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True modesty is a discerning grace And only blushes in the proper place; But counterfeit is blind, and skulks through fear, Where ’tis a shame to be asham’d t’ appear: Humility the parent of the first, The last by vanity produc’d and nurs’d.
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Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person
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Virtue which shuns, the day.
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We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.
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We wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we publish them.
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What can be found equal to modesty, uncorrupt faith, the sister of justice, and undisguised truth? [Lat., Cui pudor et justitiae soror incorrupta fides nudaque veritas quando ullum inveniet parem?]
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When one remains modest, not after praise but after blame, then is he really so. [Ger., Wenn jemand bescheiden bleibt, nicht beim Lobe, sondern beim Tadel, dann ist er’s.]
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Why, to hear Betsy Bobbet talk about wimmin’s throwin’ their modesty away, you would think if they ever went to the political pole, they would have to take their dignity and modesty and throw ’em against the pole, and go without any all the rest of their lives.
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