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• The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one's own strength makes one modest.

  Paul Cezanne

  Acceptance, Feelings, Sometimes

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• In the tropics the white feels weakened, or downright weak, whence comes the heightened tendency to outbursts of aggression. People who are polite, modest or even humble in Europe fall easily into a rage here, get into fights, destroy other people. . .

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  Fall, Humble, Fighting

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• The men who were running the church in the late '60s and '70s panicked when they saw the chaos, which developed after the council. The relatively modest changes of those years thawed the ice in which Catholicism had been frozen since the French Revolution.

  Andrew Greeley

  Running, Men, Years

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• Artists are modest. They know they're not doing the work; they're just taking dictation.

  Steven Pressfield

  Artist, Knows, Dictation

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.127, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• The blushing cheek speaks modest mind,The lips befitting words most kind,The eye does tempt to love's desire,And seems to, say 'tis "Cupid's fire.

  James Harrington

  Eye, Fire, Mind

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• The drop in pending home sales is an affirmation that we are experiencing a modest slowing in the housing sector.

  David Lereah

  Home, Affirmation, Pending

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• The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet, challenging us to be true to ourselves by appeals to the martial spirit that keeps the blood at heat. Some little, unassuming, unobtrusive choice presents itself before us slyly and craftily, glib and insinuating, in the modest garb of innocence. . . . Then it is that you will be summoned to show the courage of adventurous youth.

  Benjamin Cardozo

  Character, Blood, Choices

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• Love is a modest and immodest teacher who will bring you through the school of existence, which is the heart.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Yoga, Heart

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• Atlee is a very modest man. And with reason.

  Winston Churchill

  Humorous, Men, Reason

  Sir Winston Churchill (1965). “The Churchill Wit”

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• If I can acquire money and also keep myself modest and faithful and magnanimous, point out the way, and I will acquire it.

  Epictetus

  Money, Faithful, Way

  Epictetus (2012). “Enchiridion”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• There is always more goodness in the world than there appears to be, because goodness is of its very nature modest and retiring.

  Evelyn Beatrice Hall

  Nature, Retirement, Kindness

  "The Friends of Voltaire". Book by Evelyn Beatrice Hall, 1906.

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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.

  Joseph Addison

  Acceptance, Awkward, Merit

  Joseph Addison (1856). “The works of ... Joseph Addison, with notes by R. Hurd”, p.118

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• I've been fortunate to meet and work with a lot of really smart people. The thing that strikes me most about them is how they continue to explore and learn every day. I have tried to apply that approach in my modest career as well.

  Bill Russell

  Smart, Careers, People

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• It would be a healthy exercise for every politician to look in the mirror every morning and remind himself that he holds office only because, in a two-man race against another mediocrity, a modest majority of those half-informed people who imagined that their votes mattered reckoned that he was the lesser evil. And they weren't too sure about that.

  Joseph Sobran

  Morning, Exercise, Men

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• I run a modest-sized laboratory thats looking specifically at what we call the pathogenic mechanisms of HIV disease, or AIDS.

  Anthony S. Fauci

  Running, Disease, Hiv

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• Louis XIV was very frank and sincere when he said: I am the State. The modern statist is modest. He says: I am the servant of the State; but, he implies, the State is God. You could revolt against a Bourbon king, and the French did it. This was, of course, a struggle of man against man. But you cannot revolt against the god State and against his humble handy man, the bureaucrat.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Kings, Struggle, Humble

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• Women who are the least bashful are not unfrequently the most modest; and we are never more deceived than when we would infer any laxity of principle from that freedom of demeanor which often arises from a total ignorance of vice.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Ignorance, Vices, Principles

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.309

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• Very great personages are not likely to form very just estimates either of others or of themselves; their knowledge of themselves is obscured by the flattery of others; their knowledge of others is equally clouded by circumstances peculiar to themselves. For in the presence of the great, the modest are sure to suffer from too much diffidence, and the confident from too much display.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Character, Suffering, Peculiar

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.75

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• A modest man never talks of himself.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Men, Modesty

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• An egotist will always speak of himself, either in praise or in censure, but a modest man ever shuns making himself the subject of his conversation.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Men, Speak, Praise

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• Your modest savant smiles as he says to his admirers: What have I done? Nothing. Man does not invent a force, he directs it.

  Honore de Balzac

  Men, Doe, Done

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• Nature has thrown a veil of modest beauty over maidenhood and moss-roses.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Rose, Moss, Veils

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• In prosperous fortunes be modest and wise, The greatest may fall, and the lowest may rise: But insolent People that fall in disgrace, Are wretched and nobody pities their Case.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wise, Fall, People

  Benjamin Franklin (2005). “A Benjamin Franklin reader: the essential writings of a colonial sage ; Autobiography, Wit & wisdom”

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• I was born modest; not all over, but in spots.

  Mark Twain

  Born, Spots, Relation

  Mark Twain (1889). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.127, Createspace Independent Pub

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• May exalting and humanizing thoughts forever accompany me, making me confident without pride, and modest without servility.

  Leigh Hunt

  Humility, Pride, Forever

  Leigh Hunt (1853). “The Religion of the Heart: A Manual of Faith and Duty”, p.9

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