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• Islam doesn't try to destroy cultures; it cleans them up. You can keep your language but get rid of your racist speech. You can keep your style of cooking, but get rid of alcohol. You can keep your cultural dresses, but keep your modesty on the highest level.

  Nouman Ali Khan

  Alcohol, Cooking, Style

  FaceBook post by Nouman Ali Khan from Sep 29, 2014

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• Modesty and reverence are no less virtues of freemen than the democratic feeling which will submit neither to arrogance nor to servility.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Feelings, Arrogance, Democracy

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• Modesty and diffidence make a man unfit for public affairs; they also make him unfit for brothels.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Men, Affair, Brothels

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “Imaginary Conversations of Greeks and Romans”, p.81

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• 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.

  Clarence Day

  Angel, Done, Evolution

  Clarence Day, Jr. (2004). “This Simian World”, p.56, 1st World Publishing

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• None of the adults I knew ever touched in public, much less kneaded each others flesh.

  Maureen Howard

  Adults, Flesh, Touched

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• I possess every good quality, but the one that distinguishes me above all is modesty.

  Charles Richet

  Science, Quality, Biographies

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• The multitude will hardly believe the excessive force of education, and in the difference of modesty between men and women, ascribe that to nature, which is altogether owing to early instruction: Miss is scarce three years old, but she's spoke to every day to hide her leg, and rebuked in good earnest if she shows it; whilst little Master at the same age is bid to take up his coats, and piss like a man.

  Bernard de Mandeville

  Believe, Men, Years

  Bernard de Mandeville (1723). “The Fable of the Bees”, p.34, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

  Thornton Wilder

  Children, Winning, Want

  Interview in "Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, First Series", edited by Malcolm Cowley, 1958.

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• When entering on new ground we must not be afraid to express even risky ideas so as to stimulate research in all directions. As Priestley put it, we must not remain inactive through false modesty based on fear of being mistaken.

  Claude Bernard

  Science, Ideas, Entering

  Claude Bernard (2012). “An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine”, p.185, Courier Corporation

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• I think in the world of indie music there's this sort of false modesty.

  Alex Kapranos

  Thinking, World, Indie Music

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• People used to blush when they were ashamed. Now they are ashamed if they blush. Modesty has disappeared and a brazen generation with no fear of God before its eyes mocks at sin. We are so fond of being called tolerant and broadminded that we wink at sin when we ought to weep.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Eye, People

  Vance Havner (2014). “Day by Day”, Solid Christian Books

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• I will not be modest. Humble, as much as you like, but not modest. Modesty is the virtue of the lukewarm.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Humble, Virtue, Lukewarm

  "The Devil and the Good Lord". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, Act 4, sc. 5, 1951.

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• The thunder of false modesty was deafening.

  Sebastian Faulks

  Thunder, False Modesty

  Sebastian Faulks (2007). “Engleby: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

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• The Church is the house of God. It is forbidden for men to enter with bare arms or in shorts. It is forbidden for women to enter in trousers, without a veil on their head, in short clothing, low necklines, sleeveless or immodest dresses.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Men, House, Church

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• Gay and costly apparel directly tends to create and influence lust.... The fact is plain and undeniable, it has the effect both on the wearer and beholder. You kindle a flame, which, at the same time consumes both yourself and your admirers.

  John Wesley

  Gay, Flames, Lust

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• He who obeys with modesty appears worthy of being some day a commander.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Obedience, Worthy, Commanders

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, De Legibus, III. 2, p. 564, 1922.

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• The chief recommendation is modesty, then dutiful conduct toward parents, then affection for kindred.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Parent, Youth, Affection

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• Great is the strife between beauty and modesty.

  Ovid

  Beauty, Strife

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• There's a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.

  John Dryden

  Asking, Proud, Pay

  John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.3874, Delphi Classics

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• Modesty and chastity are twins

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Twins, Chastity

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• As paradoxical as it may seem a great sculptor is as much a colourist as the best painter, or rather the best engraver. He plays so skillfully with all the resources of relief, he blends so well the boldness of light with the modesty of shadow, that his sculptures please one, as much as the most charming etchings.

  Auguste Rodin

  Light, Play, Shadow

  Auguste Rodin (2012). “Rodin on Art and Artists”, p.22, Courier Corporation

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• One day, a daughter of Aristotle, Pythias by name, was asked what color pleased her most. She replied, "The color with which modesty suffuses the face of simple, inoffensive men.

  Joseph Joubert

  Daughter, Simple, Men

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• Make no display of your talents or attainments; for every one will clearly see, admire, and acknowledge them, so long as you cover them with the beautiful veil of modesty

  Nathanael Emmons

  Beautiful, Long, Veils

  Nathanael Emmons (1861). “The Works of Nathanael Emmons, D.D., Third Pastor of the Church in Franklin, Mass: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.101

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• Justice is a moral virtue, merely because it has that tendency to the good of mankind, and indeed is nothing but an artificial invention to that purpose. The same may be said of allegiance, of the laws of nations, of modesty, and of good manners. All these are mere human contrivances for the interest of society.

  David Hume

  Law, Justice, Good Man

  David Hume (2015). “A Treatise of Human Nature”, p.984, David Hume

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• We must admit that today conformity is on the Left. To be sure, the Right is not brilliant. But the Left is in complete decadence, a prisoner of words, caught in its own vocabulary, capable merely of stereotyped replies, constantly at a loss when faced with truth, from which it nevertheless claimed to derive its laws. The Left is schizophrenic and needs doctoring through pitiless self-criticism, exercise of the heart, close reasoning, and a little modesty.

  Albert Camus

  Heart, Loss, Exercise

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