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• Men are not inspired to protect women who are naked, but instead to conquer and violate them; they want to protect those who are clothed.

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss

  Men, Naked, Want

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• Men like to flirt with, and sometimes even date a wild child, but those women aren't usually first on their lists for marriage or motherhood.

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss

  Children, Motherhood, Flirting

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• Wearing a low-cut, cleavage-revealing top is called suggestive. What does it suggest? That there is more than what you now see, and I may let you look closer since I'm already willing to give you this much of a peek.

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss

  Cutting, Giving, Doe

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• ... where the Greeks had modesty, we have cant; where they had poetry, we have cant; where they had patriotism, we have cant; where they had anything that exalts, delights, or adorns humanity, we have nothing but cant, cant, cant.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Greek, Humanity, Insulting

  'Crotchet Castle' (1831) ch. 7

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• Your enemy wants to strip you, make sport of you, and merchandise your body, but your heavenly Father wants to clothe you with beauty, strength, dignity and honor that will endure.

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss

  Sports, Father, Honor

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• You little know what you have done, when you have first broke the bounds of modesty; you have set open the door of your fancy to the devil, so that he can, almost at his pleasure ever after, represent the same sinful pleasure to you anew; he hath now access to your fancy to stir up lustful thoughts and desires, so that when you should think of your calling, of your God, or of your soul, your thoughts will be worse than swinish, upon the filth that is not fit to be named. If the devil here get in a foot, he will not easily be got out.

  Richard Baxter

  Thinking, Doors, Feet

  Richard Baxter (1830). “The practical works of ... Richard Baxter, with a life of the author and a critical examination of his writings by W. Orme”, p.423

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• For those women sin against God when they rub their skin with ointments, stain their cheeks with rouge, and make their eyes prominent with antimony. To them, I suppose, the artistic skill of God is displeasing!

  Tertullian

  Eye, Skills, Skins

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• Beautiful colors exist, though we do not realize it, and are glimpsed behind the veil that modesty has drawn over them.

  Paul Gauguin

  Beautiful, Color, Veils

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• Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Rewards, Novel, Conscientiousness

  Erich Maria Remarque (2013). “Three Comrades: A Novel”, p.23, Random House

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• In honoring the Wright Brothers, it is customary and proper to recognize their contribution to scientific progress. But I believe it is equally important to emphasize the qualities in their pioneering life and the character in man that such a life produced. The Wright Brothers balanced sucess with modesty, science with simplicity. At Kitty Hawk their intellects and senses worked in mutual support. They represented man in balance, and from that balance came wings to lift a world.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Success, Brother, Believe

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• Trace Science, then, with Modesty thy guide,
  First strip off all her equipage of Pride,
  Deduct what is but Vanity or Dress,
  Or Learning's Luxury or idleness,
  Or tricks, to show the stretch of the human brain
  Mere curious pleasure or ingenious pain.

  Alexander Pope

  Pain, Learning, Pride

  Alexander Pope (1873). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward”, p.202

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• here was a silence between them for a moment, and she wondered if all women, when in love, were torn between two impulses, a longing to throw modesty and reserve to the winds and confess everything, and an equal determination to conceal the love forever, to be cool, aloof, utterly detached, to die rather than admit a thing so personal, so intimate.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Determination, Wind, Two

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• Have you heard that modesty is an attractive traits? Only to ugly people

  Cassandra Clare

  People, Ugly, Attractive

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• The will of God is not something you add to your life. It’s a course you choose. You either line yourself up with the Son of God…or you capitulate to the principle which governs the rest of the world.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Son, Principles, Add

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• Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgment to others with modesty.

  George Washington

  Humble, Argument, Judgment

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1834). “The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts”, p.412

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• I suppose that by this time they had finished their dressing. Roger Scurvilegs tells us nothing on such important matters; no doubt from modesty. "Next morning they rose," he says, and disappoints us of a picture of Udo brushing his hair.

  A. A. Milne

  Morning, Hair, Rose

  A. A. Milne (2013). “Once On A Time”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• That which is really beautiful has no need of anything; not more than law, not more than truth, not more than benevolence or modesty.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Beautiful, Law, Needs

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.42, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• I have a most peaceable disposition. My desires are for a modest hut, a thatched roof, but a good bed, good food, very fresh milk and butter, flowers in front of my window and a few pretty trees by my door. And should the good Lord wish to make me really happy, he will allow me the pleasure of seeing about six or seven of my enemies hanged upon those trees.

  Heinrich Heine

  Peace, Crazy, Flower

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• Modesty is the artifice of actors, similar to passion in call girls.

  Jackie Gleason

  Girl, Sarcastic, Passion

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• If we lived in a state where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us saintly. But since we see that avarice, anger, pride and stupidity commonly profit far beyond charity, modesty, justice and thought, perhaps we must stand fast a little, even at the risk of being heroes.

  Thomas More

  Trust, Betrayal, Hero

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• For many, the hijab represents modesty, piety and devotion to God, and I truly respect that. But the hijab should not be used as a means of applying social pressure on people.

  Queen Rania of Jordan

  Mean, People, Devotion To God

  "More Questions with Queen Rania". Q&A, content.time.com. May 11, 2007.

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• This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Hands, Giver

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• Modesty is the citadel of beauty.

  Demades

  Humility, Citadels

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• Not stepping over the bounds of modesty.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Love You, Bounds

  William Shakespeare, Ad Brown (1837). “Romeo and Juliet: A Tragedy in Five Acts”, p.128

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• Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Women, Kissing, Romantic Love

  Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.415

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