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Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue. - Jos

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue. – Joseph Addison

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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below. – Joseph Addison

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He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young. – Joseph Addison

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Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment. – Joseph Addison

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There is in some people a quietly unassuming pride that no misfortune can humble, and it goes by the name of humility. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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If we were but conscious of our own utter littleness, we would not dare look with contempt on the smallest atom in the world. – Charles Lanman, “Musings,” 1840

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None are so empty as those who are full of themselves. – Benjamin Whichcote

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A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself. – Jean De La Bruyere

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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Poker: the art of civilized bushwhacking. – Nick Dandalos, attributed

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy. – Anita Brookner

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All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand. – Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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