"God is displeased at the diffidence of souls……" — Alphonsus Liguori

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• Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the… — Jane Austen
• No pains must be spared to wipe out all feeling of diffidence, embarrassment, or shame on the part of those… — Heber J. Grant
• Nevertheless, he must be cautious in believing and acting, and must not inspire fear of his own accord, and must… — Niccolo Machiavelli
• Give me a mystery - just a plain and simple one - a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a… — Yevgeny Yevtushenko
• The first condition of humaneness is a little humility and a little diffidence about the correctness of one's conduct and… — Mahatma Gandhi
• Every reader should remember the diffidence of Socrates, and repair by his candour the injuries of time: he should impute… — Samuel Johnson
• Modesty is related to diffidence, diffidence is related to shyness, Shyness is a synonym for timidity, timidity is a characteristic… — Dean Koontz
• Diffidence is the better part of knowledge. — Charles Caleb Colton
• Modesty and diffidence make a man unfit for public affairs; they also make him unfit for brothels. — Walter Savage Landor
• Eloquence, to produce her full effect, should start from the head of the orator, as Pallas from the brain of… — Charles Caleb Colton
• Discretion has been termed the better part of valour, and it is more certain, that diffidence is the better part… — Charles Caleb Colton
• Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short. — Golda Meir

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