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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