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Her modest looks the cottage might adorn,
Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn.
Her modest looks the cottage might adorn,
Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn.
It rarely adds anything to say, "In my opinion" -- not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only your opinion; read more
It rarely adds anything to say, "In my opinion" -- not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only your opinion; and you are not the Pope.
Modesty is the conscience of the body.
Modesty is the conscience of the body.
Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.
Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.
Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired.
Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired.
Like the violet, which alone
Prospers in some happy shade,
My Castara lives unknown
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Like the violet, which alone
Prospers in some happy shade,
My Castara lives unknown
To no looser eye betrayed.
Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.
Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.
He saw her charming, but he saw not half
The charms her downcast modesty conceal'd.
He saw her charming, but he saw not half
The charms her downcast modesty conceal'd.
