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An ounce of courage will go farther with women than a pound of timidity. - Honore de Balzac Silent when glad; affectionate, though shy. - James Beattie A woman is seldom merciful to the man who is timid. - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Women do not fancy timid men. - Dorothee DeLuzy Bestow, base man, thy idle threats elsewhere; my mother's daughter knows not how to fear. - John Dryden Love is frightened at the intervals of insensibility and callousness that encroach by little and little on the domain of grief, and it makes efforts to recall the keenness of the first anguish. - George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross) Until every good man is brave, we must expect to find many good women timid--too timid even to believe in the correctness of their own best promptings, when these would place them in a minority. - George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross) A thousand fears still overawe when she appears. - George Granville, Lord Landsdowne Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty. - Thomas Jefferson Women, somehow, have the same fear of witty men as of fireworks. - Douglas William Jerrold Presumption will be easily corrected; but timidity is a disease of the mind more obstinate and fatal. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") Timidity challenges the scorn of women. - Massias No woman dares express all she thinks. - Jean-Antoine Petit-Senn Looks that asked, yet dared not hope relief. - Samuel Rogers That mute eloquence which passeth speech. - Samuel Rogers Death of thy soul! those linen cheeks of thine are counsellors to fear. - William Shakespeare One with more of soul in his face than words on his tongue. - William Wordsworth
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