“Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false”
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“Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false”
“The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune”
“The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much”
“And gain is gain, however small”
“If you get simple beauty and nought else, you get about the best thing God invents”
“Modesty is to merit, as shades to figures in a picture, giving it strength and beauty”
“Liberality consists rather in giving reasonably than much”
“Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul, that is, in the force of thought, moral principle, and love, and this may be found in the humblest condition of life”
“Artists have a right to be modest and a duty to be vain”
“Man loves company even if it is only that of a small burning candle”
“In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity”
“Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think”
“Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions”
“Joy and temperance and repose - slam the door on the doctor's nose”
“It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.”