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modesty virtue policy
Modesty is policy, no less than virtue. William Gilmore Simms
modesty judgment candor
If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader. Sarah Fielding
modesty speak intimate
To speak highly of one with whom we are intimate is a species of egotism. Our modesty as well as our jealousy teaches us caution on this subject. William Hazlitt
modesty great-person persons
No truly great person ever thought themselves so.
modesty diffidence false-modesty
Diffidence is a sort of false modesty. William Makepeace Thackeray
modesty virtue betray
Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false. The one guards virtue, the other betrays it. Joseph Addison
modesty virtue
Virtue which shuns, the day.
modesty virtue thrive
Modesty is a virtue that can never thrive in public. John Adams
modesty reason conventions
The convention missionaries call "modesty" has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is therefore an artificiality and subject to anybody's whim - anybody's diseased caprice. Mark Twain
virtue oversight packages
It is one of the most culpable oversights of nature that virtue and beauty so often come in separate packages. Will Durant
virtue easy form
Persecution is a very easy form of virtue. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
virtue innocent
Guess what? By virtue of being American, you are not innocent. Ward Churchill
virtue idleness
Idleness breeds our better virtues. William Faulkner
virtue economics budgets
Balancing your budget is like protecting your virtue. You have to learn when to say no. Ronald Reagan
virtue commit fatherland
Wherever I see some mystique, be it virtue or family, faith or fatherland, there I must commit some indecent act. Witold Gombrowicz
virtue economy devices
There is no device whatever to be invented for securing happiness without industry, economy, and virtue. William Graham Sumner
virtue capacity humans
The virtue of a human being is the application of his capacity to the general good. William Godwin
virtue mask dangerous
Villainy wears many masks; none so dangerous as the mask of virtue. Washington Irving
betrayed nuclear trust
It betrayed the public's trust over nuclear energy, Takeo Hiranuma
betrayal character elements feelings forward girl gone moves past
His past and his feelings for the girl he's into are really important elements of the character. There's also the betrayal that he's gone through, and how he moves forward from that.
betrayal greater public violated
There is no greater betrayal than that of the public trust, and these defendants violated that trust.
betrayed felt tough
I don't feel like they betrayed me. It's just a tough situation. I'm disappointed. I felt like I had done enough around here that they would keep me. Bronson Arroyo
betrays classical current impression judicial justice policy restraint roberts strong
I come away with a very strong impression that Roberts will be a much more classical judicial restraint justice than any of the current justices. He betrays no real policy agenda.
betrayal behavior revealing
Behavior of such cunning cruelty that only a human being could have thought of or contrived it we call 'inhuman,' revealing thus some pathetic ideal standard for our species that survives all betrayals. Rose Macaulay
betrayal hate heart
You always want someone to hate in order to feel justified in your own misery. Hatred is the true primordial passion. It is love that's abnormal. That is why Christ was killed: he spoke against nature. You don't love someone for your whole life - that impossible hope is the source of adultery, matricide, betrayal of friends ... But you can hate someone for your whole life - provided he's always there to keep your hatred alive. Hatred warms the heart. Umberto Eco
betrayal shapes danger
Whom neither shape of danger can dismay, Nor thought of tender happiness betray. William Wordsworth
betrayal blow men
Action is transitory, a step, a blow, The motion of a muscle, this way or that, 'Tis done--And in the after-vacancy, We wonder at ourselves, like men betrayed.