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“The truth is a young maiden as modest as she is beautiful, and therefore she is always seen cloaked.”

Quote by Umberto Eco

Book:The Island of the Day Before

Work

The Island of the Day Before

This novel explores the concept of time and its peculiarities on an island where the passage of time is unique, blending elements of fantasy and introspection. more

Author

Italian essayist, scholar, and critic. Umberto Eco is renowned for his unique literary style and profound academic background. His works integrate history, philosophy, literature, and semiotics, with his most famous novel being 'The Name of the Rose'. more

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Book:Selected Prose

Source: Selected Prose

“An age that melts in unperceiv'd decay, And glides in modest innocence away.”

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Book:The poetical works of Samuel Johnson: collated with the best editions

Source: The poetical works of Samuel Johnson: collated with the best editions

“Her modest looks the cottage might adorn, Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn.”

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Book:Goldsmith's Deserted village, with notes and a life of the poet by W. M'Leod. (Oxf. exam. scheme).

Source: Goldsmith's Deserted village, with notes and a life of the poet by W. M'Leod. (Oxf. exam. scheme).

“How can one liberate the many? By first liberating his own being. He does this not by elevating himself, but by lowering himself. He lowers himself to that which is simple, modest, true; integrating it into himself, he becomes a master of simplicity, modesty, truth.”

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“Implied Subjection, but requir'd with gentle sway, And by her yielded, by him best receiv'd,- Yielded with coy submission, modest pride, And sweet, reluctant, amorous delay.”

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Book:The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office

Source: The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office

“The wisest man could ask no more of fate Than to be simple, modest, manly, true, Safe from the many, honored by the few; Nothing to court in Church, or World, or State, But inwardly in secret to be great.”

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“I am thinking of the onion again. . . . Not self-righteous like the proletarian potato, nor a siren like the apple. No show-off like the banana. But a modest, self-effacing vegetable, questioning, introspective, peeling itself away, or merely radiating halos like ripples.”

Source: Becoming light: poems, new and selected

“Man offers himself to God. He stands before Him like the canvas before the painter or the marble before the sculptor. At the same time he asks for His grace, expresses his needs and those of his brothers in suffering. Such a type of prayer demands complete renovation. The modest, the ignorant, and the poor are more capable of this self-denial than the rich and the intellectual.”

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Book:Aeschylus: The suppliant maidens, The Persians, translated by S. G. Benardete. Seven against Thebes, Prometheus bound, translated by D. Grene

Source: Aeschylus: The suppliant maidens, The Persians, translated by S. G. Benardete. Seven against Thebes, Prometheus bound, translated by D. Grene