Quotes with timidity

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• It is only through timidity that states are lost.

  Voltaire
  French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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• Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.

  Francois de la Rochefoucauld
  French writer (1613 - 1680)
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• We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

  David Grayson
  American journalist, historian and author, pen name of Ray Baker (1870 - 1946)
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• Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

  Jean Paul
  German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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• Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.

  Thomas Hardy
  British writer and poet (1840 - 1928)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• over-daring
• themselves
• cowardly
• patience
• blending
• physical

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