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«The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it»
«The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.»
«True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.»
Author: Ralph W. Sockman
| About:
Humility,
Self-respect,
Thinking
| Keywords:
come short, highly, humility, meanly, modest, reminding, self respect
«Style is the dress of thought; a modest dress, Neat, but not gaudy, will true critics please»
«This, then, is held to be the duty of the man of wealth: First, to set an example of modest, unostentatious living, shunning display or extravagance; to provide moderately for the legitimate wants of those dependent upon him; and, after doing so, to consider all surplus revenues which come to him simply as trust funds, which he is called upon to administer, and strictly bound as a matter of duty to administer in the manner which, in his judgment, is best calculated to produce the most beneficial results for the community /the man of wealth thus becoming the mere trustee and agent for his poorer brethren, bringing to their service his superior wisdom, experience and ability to administer, doing for them better than they would or could do for themselves.»
Author: Andrew Carnegie
(Industrialist, Philanthropist)
| Keywords:
administer, agent, An example, An example of, beneficial, brethren, calculated, called upon, community service, dependent, display, legitimate, moderately, modest, poorer, revenues, shunning, strictly, trustee, trustees, trust fund, unostentatious
«The elephant, not only the largest but the most intelligent of animals, provides us with an excellent example. It is faithful and tenderly loving to the female of its choice, mating only every third year and then for no more than five days, and so secretly as never to be seen, until, on the sixth day, it appears and goes at once to wash its whole body in the river, unwilling to return to the herd until thus purified. Such good and modest habits are an example to husband and wife.»
Author: St. Francis de Sales
| Keywords:
An example, elephant, female body, Five Days, herd, largest, mating, modest, purified, secretly, sixth, The Elephant, The Herd, third-year, unwilling
«There's not a modest maiden elf / But dreads the final Trumpet, / Lest half of her should rise herself, / And half some sturdy strumpet!»
«The modest fan was lifted up no more, and virgins smiled at what they blushed before»
«The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.»
«This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
giver, hand out, modest, Out of Love
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