A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.
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No. 231 (24 November 1711).Joseph Addison
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Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see. With people with only modest ability, modesty is mere honesty; but with those who possess great talent, it is hypocrisy.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.
Harriet Martineau
Now as one of the signatories of the document I naturally recommend its acceptance. I do not recommend it for more than it is. Equally I do not recommend it for less than it is. In my opinion it gives us freedom, not the ultimate freedom that all nations desire and develop to, but the freedom to achieve it.
Michael Collins
He possessed a peculiar talent of producing effect in whatever he said or did.
Tacitus
Erasmus’s Moria ... sees through the madness of those who see themselves as reasonable and self-possessed while in reality giving themselves over to rivalry.
Desiderius Erasmus
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