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• The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Men, Twins

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.281, Courier Corporation

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• He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Sound, Tin, Determined

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• True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.

  John Milton

  Rich, Covetousness

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• Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Flower, Sincerity, Spontaneous

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• No amount of rationalizing can change God's laws. No amount of fashion designing can turn immodesty into virtue, and no amount of popularity can change sin into righteousness.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Fashion, Law, Design

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• Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Thinking, Poetry, Literature

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• You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.

  Seneca the Younger

  Time, Repeats, Acquire

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• When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.

  Tacitus

  Lost, Chastity, Shrinks

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• Modesty in dress and language and deportment is a true mark of refinement and a hallmark of a virtuous Latter-day Saint woman.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Dresses, Saint, Language

  Ezra Taft Benson (1990). “Come, Listen to a Prophet's Voice”, Shadow Mountain

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• Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville.

  Jesse Jackson

  Positive, Jesus, Born

  "The preacher comes to town" by Laura Smith, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2005.

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• Blushes are the rainbow of modesty.

  Bill Vaughan

  Rainbow

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• His modesty amounts to deformity.

  Margot Asquith

  Deformity, Amount

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• A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Wise, Men, Doe

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• In matters of dress we wish neither silk nor rags," President Hinckley said. "We seek for the clean look, call it a wholesome look, the bright and happy look of young men and women who walk with a sense of who they are, of what is expected of them, and of what they may become.

  Daniel H. Ludlow

  Men, Wish, President

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• He takes the greatest ornament from friendship, who takes modesty from it.
  [Lat., Maximum ornamentum amicitiae tollit, qui ex ea tollit verecudiam.]

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Ornaments, Maximum, Exes

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• Genuine wisdom is usually conspicuous through modesty and silence.

  Napoleon Hill

  Silence, Think And Grow Rich, Genuine

  Napoleon Hill (2007). “The Prosperity Bible: The Greatest Writings of All Time on the Secrets to Wealth and Prosperity”, p.132, Penguin

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• Conceit spoils the finest genius.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Life, Conceited, Genius

  1868 Little Women, pt.1, ch.7.

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• 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.

  Akhenaton

  Beauty, Beautiful, Stars

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• Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive.

  Bernard de Mandeville

  Nature, Passion, May

  Bernard de Mandeville (1723). “The Fable of the Bees”, p.36, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Feelings, Shame, Authority

  "Rhetorical Invention", Book II, Section LVI, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 520-21,

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• He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.

  William Hazlitt

  Success, Good Life, Character

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1334, Delphi Classics

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• Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired.

  Emile de Girardin

  Character, Mind, Taste

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• I'm a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I'm even afraid of it - it's a learned affectation and it's just stuck on me like decals. Now I pray for humility because that comes from inside out.

  Maya Angelou

  Religious, Humility, Responsibility

  Interview With Marianne Schnall, www.psychologytoday.com. February 17, 2009.

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• There is a grey blur, and a green blur. I try to stay on the grey one.

  Joey Dunlop

  Trying, Green, Grey

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• Modesty answers not the crude how of femininity, but the beautiful why.

  Wendy Shalit

  Beautiful, Answers, Femininity

  Wendy Shalit (2014). “A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue”, p.154, Simon and Schuster

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