Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes About Modesty

Quotes about: Modesty

• Modesty, that perennial flower planted instinctively in the human breast, blooms therein only as continence guards and virtue keeps.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Flower, Modesty, Virtue

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

• Nor do we accept, as genuine the person not characterized by this blushing bashfulness, this youthfulness of heart, this sensibility to the sentiment of suavity and self-respect. Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds. None are truly great without this ornament.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Heart, Self, Mind

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1868). “Tablets”, p.72

• Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Self, Mind, Modesty

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1868). “Tablets”, p.72

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