Quotations on Modesty | Quotations: 16 | Pages: 2
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Better to light a candle, than to curse the darkness. |
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by William Shakespeare
(April 23, 1564 - April 23, 1616) |
Can it be That modesty may more betray our sense Than woman's lightness? Having waste ground enough, Shall we desire to raze the sanctuary And pitch our evils there? |
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Few and evil have the days of the years of my life been. |
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He must increase, but I must decrease. |
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by Oliver Goldsmith
(November 10, 1728 - April 4, 1774) |
Her modest looks the cottage might adorn, Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn. |
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by William Shakespeare
(April 23, 1564 - April 23, 1616) |
I met the youthful lord at Laurence' cell And gave him what becomed love I might, Not stepping o'er the bounds of modesty. |
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Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth. |
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by Mark Twain
(November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910) |
Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more. Modesty died when clothes were born. Modesty died when false modesty was born. |
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by Joseph Addison
(May 1, 1672 - June 17, 1719) |
Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue. |
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by William Hazlitt
(April 10, 1778 - September 18, 1830) |
Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly overvalued by others. |
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