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.
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Thy modesty's a candle to thy merit.
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His modesty amounts to deformity.
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The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.
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At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings.
As in all his subsequent dealings with France, Ho Chi Minh's demands were a model of modesty.
Modesty used to be considered a natural female attribute. No more.
Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
If modesty disappeared, so would exhibitionism.
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.
Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.
We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.
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.
Modesty forbids what the law does not.
Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart.
To forgive and to be forgiven are the two points of holy magnificence and holy modesty; round these two centres the whole doctrine of largesse revolves.
Be a constant outrage to modesty There is nothing to fear: modesty is exercised only among the blind.
I don't suppose there is a country in the world where a playwright has such a tremendous field for modesty as Canada.
Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.
He saw her charming, but he saw not half The charms her downcast modesty conceal'd.
Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.
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