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• He slowed down a bit more. "Gaia, how do you know these things?" She shrugged. "I'm smart." "And modest, too." "Modesty is a waste of time," she pronounced. "I'll keep that in mind.

  Francine Pascal

  Smart, Mind, Waste

  Francine Pascal (2012). “Fearless: Fearless; Sam; Run”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

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• A modest little person, with much to be modest about.

  Winston Churchill

  Life, Sarcastic, Humility

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• There are two kinds of beauty, one being of the soul and the other of the body, That of the soul is revealed through intelligence, modesty, right conduct, Generosity and good breeding, all of which qualities may exist in an ugly man; And when one's gaze is fixed upon beauty of this sort and not upon that of the body, Love is usually born suddenly and violently.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Love Is, Men, Two

  Miguel de Cervantes (2000). “Don Quixote”, p.1050, Modern Library

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• We lament, too, the destruction of purity among women and young girls as is evidenced by the increasing immodesty of their dress and conversation and by their participation in shameful dances.

  Pope Pius XI

  Girl, Dresses, Purity

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• When she was thrown into the air by a savage bull in the amphitheatre at Carthage, her first thought and action when she fell to the ground was to rearrange her dress to cover her thigh, because she was more concerned for modesty than pain.

  Pope Pius XII

  Pain, Air, Bulls

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• Beyond fashion and its demands, there are higher and more pressing laws, principles superior to fashion, and unchangeable, which under no circumstances can be sacrificed to the whim of pleasure or fancy, and before which must bow the fleeting omnipotence of fashion. These principles have been proclaimed by God, by the Church, by the Saints, by reason, by Christian morality.

  Pope Pius XII

  Christian, Fashion, Law

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• Avoid failing, not only against purity, but even against the least rules of an exact modesty.

  Paul of the Cross

  Failing, Purity

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• How many young girls there are who do not see any wrongdoing in following certain shameless styles like so many sheep. They certainly would blush if they could guess the impression they make and the feelings they evoke in those who see them. Do they not see the harm resulting from excess in certain gymnastic exercises and sports not suitable for virtuous girls? What sins are committed or provoked by conversations which are too free, by immodest shows, by dangerous reading. How lax have consciences become, how pagan morals!

  Pope Pius XII

  Girl, Sports, Reading

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• Be neat, Philothea; let nothing be negligent about you. It is a kind of contempt of those with whom we converse, to frequent their company in uncomely apparel; but, at the same time, avoid all affectation, vanity, curiosity, or levity in your dress. Keep yourself always, as much as possible, on the side of plainness and modesty, which, without doubt, is the greatest ornament of beauty, and the best excuse for the want of it.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Vanity, Curiosity, Doubt

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• God looks at the heart, and we shouldn't judge by appearance . . . but we still live on the earth, and everyone here looks at the exterior, because only God sees the interior.

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss

  Heart, Judging, Looks

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• Modesty used to be considered a natural female attribute. No more.

  Linda Chavez

  Female, Natural, Used

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• 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.

  Nam June Paik

  Strong, Jobs, War

  "Art People" by Douglas C. McGill. Archives, www.nytimes.com. 1986.

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• Generosity wins favour for everyone, especially when it is accompanied by modesty.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Winning, Generosity, Favour

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• Whenever a man believes that he has the exact truth from God, there is in that man no spirit of compromise. He has not the modesty born of the imperfections of human nature; he has the arrogance of theological certainty and the tyranny born of ignorant assurance. Believing himself to be the slave of God, he imitates his master, and of all tyrants the worst is a slave in power.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Believe, Men, Tyrants

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.444, Library of Alexandria

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• Modesty in human beings is praised because it is not a matter of nature, but of will.

  Lactantius

  Humble, Matter, Humans

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• The magnificently humble. The enormously small. The meaningfully ridiculous. Robert Walser's work often reads like a dazzling answer to the question, How immense can modesty be?

  Rivka Galchen

  Humble, Answers, Ridiculous

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• The Hours is in fact a lovely triumph. Cunningham honors both Mrs. Dalloway and its creator with unerring sensitivity, thanks to his modesty of intention and his sovereignly affecting prose.... With his elliptical evocation of Mrs. Dalloway, he has managed to pay great but quiet tribute -- reminding us of the gorgeous, ferocious beauty of what endures.

  Gail Caldwell

  Lovely, Honor, Triumph

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• Intellectual modesty is humility as to what I know; intellectual humility is modesty as to what I do not know

  Tariq Ramadan

  Humility, Intellectual, Knows

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• 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.

  Marquis de Sade

  Love, Life, Sex

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• 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.

  Belva Ann Lockwood

  Sex, Women, Believe

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• Modesty is the delicate form of hypocrisy.

  Remy de Gourmont

  Hypocrisy, Form, Delicate

  Remy de Gourmont (1920). “Philosophic Nights in Paris”

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• Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wisdom, Humility, Perfect

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “Weight of Glory”, p.38, Harper Collins

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• He had somehow, with all his modesty, the rare faculty of controlling his superiors as well as his subordinates. He outfaced Stanton, captivated the President, and even compelled acquiescence or silence from that dread source of paralyzing power, the Congressional Committee on the Conduct of the War.

  Joshua Chamberlain

  War, Silence, President

  Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (1998). “The Passing of the Armies: An Account of the Final Campaign of the Army of the Potomac, Based Upon Personal Reminiscences of the Fifth Army Corps”, p.29, U of Nebraska Press

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• Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Courage, Color, Hypocrisy

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• Indecency in anything spoils it. And modesty in anything adorns it.

  Ibn Majah

  Spoil

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