Diffidence may check resolution and obstruct performance, but compensates its embarrassments by more important advantages; it conciliates the proud, and softens the severe; averts envy from excellence, and censure from miscarriage.


The Rambler: In Four Volumes (ed. 1761)

Samuel Johnson Quotes

Diffidence may check resolution and obstruct performance, but compensates its embarrassments by more important advantages; it conciliates the proud,...

Diffidence may check resolution and obstruct performance, but compensates its embarrassments by more important advantages; it conciliates the proud,...

Diffidence may check resolution and obstruct performance, but compensates its embarrassments by more important advantages; it conciliates the proud,...

Diffidence may check resolution and obstruct performance, but compensates its embarrassments by more important advantages; it conciliates the proud,...