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Tag Name "Modesty" (276)

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Modesty once lost, never returns into favour.
Publilius Syrus
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Modesty should be typical of the success of a champion.
Major Taylor
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Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.
Miguel de Cervantes
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Modesty is great, and quietness is nice, but sometimes it's much more fun to be decadent.
Robin Standefer
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Modesty and reverence are no less virtues of freemen than the democratic feeling which will submit neither to arrogance nor to servility.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more.
Mark Twain
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Modesty forbids what the law does not.
Seneca the Younger
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Modesty is the key to success
Paul the Apostle
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Modesty is a learned affectation. It's no good. Humility is great, because humility says, 'There was someone before me. I'm following in somebody's footsteps.'
Maya Angelou
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Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
Lord Chesterfield
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Modesty is humility expressed in dress.
C. J. Mahaney
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Modesty, that perennial flower planted instinctively in the human breast, blooms therein only as continence guards and virtue keeps.
Amos Bronson Alcott
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Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds.
Amos Bronson Alcott
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Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.
Andre Maurois
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Modesty and chastity are twins
Anna Brownell Jameson
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Modesty is the chastity of merit, the virginity of noble souls.
Delphine de Girardin
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Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are of the body.
Benjamin Whichcote
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Modesty in women has two special advantages,--it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness.
Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
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Modesty is not one of my virtues.
Alan King
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Modesty is the proof that morality is sexy.
Wendy Shalit
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Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a real confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
William Hazlitt
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Modesty and diffidence make a man unfit for public affairs they also make him unfit for brothels.
Walter Savage Landor
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