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Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Have more humility. Remember you don't know the limits of your own abilities. Successful or not, if you keep pushing beyond yourself, you will enrich your own life – and maybe even please a few strangers.

  • Steadfastness is a noble quality, but unguided by knowledge or humility, it becomes rashness, or obstinacy.

  • The emotional reaction in the peak experience has a special flavor of wonder, of awe, of reverence, of humility and surrender before the experience as before something great.

  • Modesty is not one of my virtues.

  • I am not aware that I have deserved any notoriey, and I have no taste for its buzz.

  • There is a sad forgetfulness of Christian modesty, especially in the life and dress of women.

  • Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds.

  • What is beauty, but an extension of modesty?

  • As to modesty and decency, if we are simians we have done well, considering: but if we are something else-fallen angels-we have indeed fallen far.

  • What does God think of spurious beauty, rejecting utterly as He does all falsehood?

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