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Music hath charm to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
Music hath charm to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
When you feel bad about yourself
you reverse your magnet and repel people.
When you feel bad about yourself
you reverse your magnet and repel people.
What can be found equal to modesty, uncorrupt faith, the sister
of justice, and undisguised truth?
[Lat., Cui read more
What can be found equal to modesty, uncorrupt faith, the sister
of justice, and undisguised truth?
[Lat., Cui pudor et justitiae soror incorrupta fides nudaque
veritas quando ullum inveniet parem?]
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.
With people of only moderate ability modesty is mere honesty; but with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
With people of only moderate ability modesty is mere honesty; but with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
The modesty's a candle to thy merit.
The modesty's a candle to thy merit.
There is a sort of charm in ugliness, if the person has some redeeming qualities and is only ugly enough
There is a sort of charm in ugliness, if the person has some redeeming qualities and is only ugly enough
No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.
No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.
Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
