Quotes of Modestly - somelinesforyou

“ And since you know you cannot see yourself, so well as by reflection, I, your glass, will modestly discover to yourself, that of yourself which you yet know not of. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts them. ”

- Plato

“ He wove a great web of knowledge, linking everything together, and sat modestly at a switchboard at the center, eager to help. ”

- Walter Kerr

“ For this reason the Bible is a book of eternal and effective power; because, as long as the world lasts, no one will say: I comprehend it in the whole and understand it in the particular. Rather we must modestly say it on the whole it is venerable, and in the particular practical. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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