Assertion: diffidence | /r/CapableOf | compensate its embarrassment
Facets:
value: by more important advantages
type: CAUSE
Source sentences:
text: Diffidence, says Dr. Johnson, may check resolution and obstruct performance, but compensates its embarrassment by more important advantages; it conciliates the proud, and softens the severe; averts envy from excellence, and censure from miscarriage.
text: 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.