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Modesty is the conscience of the body.
Modesty is the conscience of the body.
Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.
Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.
Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them.
Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them.
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.
Give place to your betters.
[Lat., De locum melioribus.]
Give place to your betters.
[Lat., De locum melioribus.]
A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.
A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.
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.
Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
