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— Joseph Addison"Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false. The one guards virtue, the other betrays it."
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When we are truly in this interior simplicity our whole appearance is franker, more natural. This true simplicity. . . makes us conscious of a certain openness, gentleness, innocence, gaiety, and serenity. O, how amiable this simplicity is! Who will give it to me? I leave all for this. It is the pearl of the Gospel.
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