Joseph Addison Quotes About Modesty
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Virtue which shuns, the day.
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Mere bashfulness without merit is awkward; and merit without modesty, insolent. But modest merit has a double claim to acceptance, and generally meets with as many patrons as beholders.
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Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.
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The pride of woman, natural to her, never sleeps until modesty is gone.
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A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.
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True modesty avoids everything that is criminal; false modesty everything that is unfashionable.
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The first of all virtues is innocence; the next is modesty. If we banish modesty out of the world, she carries away with her half the virtue that is in it.
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Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false. The one guards virtue, the other betrays it.
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