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- Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming… — Jane Austen
- Nevertheless, he must be cautious in believing and acting, and must not inspire fear of his own accord, and must proceed in… — Niccolo Machiavelli
- No pains must be spared to wipe out all feeling of diffidence, embarrassment, or shame on the part of those receiving relief;… — Heber J. Grant
- Give me a mystery - just a plain and simple one - a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little… — Yevgeny Yevtushenko
- The first condition of humaneness is a little humility and a little diffidence about the correctness of one's conduct and a little… — Mahatma Gandhi
- Every reader should remember the diffidence of Socrates, and repair by his candour the injuries of time: he should impute the seeming… — Samuel Johnson
- Modesty is related to diffidence, diffidence is related to shyness, Shyness is a synonym for timidity, timidity is a characteristic of the… — Dean Koontz
- God is displeased at the diffidence of souls who love Him sincerely and whom He Himself loves. — Alphonsus Liguori