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Updated: May 13, 2025
There was no rhetoric, no gesture, no grimace, no dramatic familiarity and action; but the manner was self-respectful and courteous to the audience, and the tone supremely just and sincere. "He is easily king of us all," whispered an orator. Yet it was not oratory either in its substance or purpose. It was a statement of what this wise man believed conversation ought to be.
A decent modesty, a self-respectful reserve, a manly humility in presence of the unattainable ideal of either moral or intellectual perfection, a speechless reverence in the presence of either infinite goodness or infinite truth, these are virtues which belong to the very warp and woof of all noble, elevated, and justly estimable character; and wherever their absence is conspicuously shown, there is just ground for moral condemnation and the contempt of mankind.
His relatives never mentioned him, and when, well dressed, dignified, self-respectful, he appeared among them again, it was like receiving one from the dead.
She has found something to love and something to do. These were all she needed to make her supremely self-respectful, happy, and, in the best degree, womanly.
I can remember the time when thrifty farmers, mechanics, and tradesmen took wives from the kitchens of gentlemen where they were employed, good, intelligent, self-respectful women they were, too who became modest mistresses of thrifty families afterward; but that is all done with now.
A thoroughly self-respectful person will command respect anywhere.
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