#graces

But what has America to boast? What are the graces or the virtues which distinguish its inhabitants? What are their triumphs in war, or their inventions in peace? ↗

— Thomas Day

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There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance. ↗

— Arthur Helps

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That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule. ↗

— Horace Walpole

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I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted. ↗

— Og Mandino

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I was tired of seeing the Graces always depicted as beautiful young things. I think wisdom comes with age and life and pain. And knowing what matters. ↗

— Louise Penny

#three-graces #wisdom #age

Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces. ↗

— Matthew Henry

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The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as "Soho" poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

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The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil. ↗

— Voltaire

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You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces - my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

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