"Zealous, not modest." — James Beattie
"Zealous, not modest."
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James Beattie
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12 Quotes by James Beattie
James Beattie has 12 quotes on this site.
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And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb.
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Be ignorance thy choice, where knowledge leads to woe.
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From labour health, from health contentment spring; contentment opes the source of every joy.
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He thought as a sage, though he felt like a man.
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How sweet the words of Truth, breathed from the lips of Love.
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In every age and every man there is something to praise as well as to blame.
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Inflexible in faith, invincible in arms.
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No jealousy their dawn of love overcast, nor blasted were their wedded days with strife; each season looked delightful as…
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Some deemed him wondrous wise, and some believed him mad.
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Ah, who can tell how hard it is to climb the steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar?
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At the close of the day when the hamlet is still, and mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove, when naught…
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More Modest Quotes
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All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was…
— Paul Auster
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I come from a modest background. I put myself through college and law school and a postdoctorate program in tax…
— Michele Bachmann
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Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be…
— Russell Baker
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I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
— Max Beerbohm
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To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that…
— David Bowie
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Be modest, be respectful of others, try to understand.
— Lakhdar Brahimi
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Is the raggle-taggle Brangelina tribe any more bogus than that of the landlocked yummy mummy who believes that she can…
— Julie Burchill
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The wage for most musicians is a modest amount, and that includes me some of the time.
— David Byrne
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Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.
— Abraham Cahan
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It was a challenge to be able to create a character without being able to use one's normal set of…
— Helena Bonham Carter
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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
— Paul Cezanne
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Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.
— Winston Churchill
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