“Man can never come up to his ideal standard. It is the nature of the immortal spirit to raise that standard higher and higher as it goes from strength to strength, still upward and onward. The wisest and greatest men are ever the most modest.” MenStillsSpiritHigherStandardsIdealsRaisesCome UpImmortalModestWisestGreatest Man Book:Memoirs, [ed.] by R.W. Emerson, W.H. Channing, and J.F. Clarke Source: Memoirs, [ed.] by R.W. Emerson, W.H. Channing, and J.F. Clarke
“The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet, challenging us to be true to ourselves by appeals to the martial spirit that keeps the blood at heat. Some little, unassuming, unobtrusive choice presents itself before us slyly and craftily, glib and insinuating, in the modest garb of innocence. . . . Then it is that you will be summoned to show the courage of adventurous youth.” LittlesCharacterShowsSpiritChoicesHoursChallengesBloodYouthBeing TrueAppealsInnocenceHeatHeroicModestAdventurousTrumpetsUnassuming Author:Benjamin Cardozo
“That holy, humble, meek, modest, retiring Form, sometimes called the Spirit of Prayer, has been dragged from the closet, and so rudely handled by some of her professed friends, that she has not only lost all her wonted loveliness, but is now stalking the street, in some places, stark mad.” Has BeensSometimesFormSpiritLostPrayerStreetsHolyMadHumbleRetiringModestClosetsStalkingStarksMeekLoveliness Author:Asahel Nettleton
“Tis not the wholesome sharp mortality, Or modest anger of a satiric spirit, That hurts or wounds the body of a state, But the sinister application Of the malicious, ignorant, and base Interpreter; who will distort and strain The general scope and purpose of an author To his particular and private spleen.” StatesBodySpiritPurposeHurtParticularCriticismWoundsIgnorantMortalityApplicationModestStrainScopeSinisterInterpreterMaliciousSpleen Author:Ben Jonson
“Whatever the Holy Spirit prompts a true Christian to do for the glory of God, He allures him to do in a modest way, and with a disposition of indescribable tenderness.” WayChristianSpiritHolyGloryHoly SpiritTendernessModestDispositionGlory Of GodPromptsIndescribableAllure Author:Charles Seymour Robinson
“American gentlemen are a cross between English and French men, and yet really altogether like neither. They are more refined and modest than Frenchmen, and less manly, shy, and rough, than Englishmen. Their brains are finer and flimsier, their bodies less robust and vigorous than ours. We are the finer animals, and they the subtler spirits. Their intellectual tendency is to excitement and insanity, and ours to stagnation and stupidity.” MenBodySpiritAnimalBrainIntellectualCrossesStupidityTendenciesInsanityExcitementGentlemanShyRoughModestEnglishmenVigorousRefinedManlyRobustStagnationFrenchmenGentility Book:Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters Source: Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters