Great men suffer hours of depression through introspection and self-doubt. That is why they are great. That is why you will find modesty and humility the characteristics of such men.
Great men suffer hours of depression through introspection and self-doubt. That is why they are great. That is why you will find modesty and humility the characteristics of such men.
We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.
If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.
A modesty in delivering our sentiments leaves us a liberty of changing them without blushing.
But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.
I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade - or that modesty and virtue are more becoming to women than to men, but wish we had more of it everywhere.
A lot of men who have accepted - or had imposed upon them in boyhood - the old English public school styles of careful modesty in speech, with much understatement, have behind their masks an appalling and impregnable conceit of themselves.
If I know more of any man alive
Than that which maiden modesty doth warrant,
Let all my sins lack mercy!
Our life is half natural and half technological. Half-and-half is good. You cannot deny that high-tech is progress. We need it for jobs. Yet if you make only high-tech, you make war. So we must have a strong human element to keep modesty and natural life.
It isn't false modesty when I say this, but although I am supposed to be a famous person it doesn't mean anything to me. I just sit at home and work.
He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.
"Sex" is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.
No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry, in great plainness of living, in exact modesty of dress.
If modesty disappeared, so would exhibitionism.
© 2020 Inspirational Stories
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