Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work
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Their sighing , canting , grace-proud faces, their three-mile prayers, and half-mile graces.
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The poet is born with the capacity of arranging words in such a way that something of the quality of the graces and inspirations he has received can make itself felt to other human beings in the white spaces, so to speak, between the lines of his verse. This is a great and precious gift; but if the poet remains content with his gift, if he persists in worshipping the beauty in art and nature without going on to make himself capable, through selflessness, of apprehending Beauty as it is in the divine Ground, then he is only an idolater.
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As for the graces of expression, a great thought is never found in a mean dress; but ... the nine Muses and the three Graces will have conspir...
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We worship not the Graces, nor the Parcae, but Fashion. She spins and weaves and cuts with full authority. The head monkey at Paris puts on a traveler's cap, and all the monkeys in America do the same.
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It must be owned, that the Graces do not seem to be natives of Great Britain; and I doubt, the best of us here have more of rough than polished diamond.
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I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.
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For, surely, surely, where Your voice and graces are, Nothing of death can any feel or know.
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Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word.
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Cats exercise... a magic influence upon highly developed men of intellect. This is why these long-tailed Graces of the animal kingdom, these adorable, scintillating electric batteries have been the favorite animal of a Mohammed, Cardinal Richlieu, Crebillon, Rousseau, Wieland.
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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.
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They suppose that Woman's Love is Sin; in consequence all the Loves and Graces with them are Sin.
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As soldiers we have few saving graces. Perhaps our willingness to die for what we believe in is all that matters.
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They suppose that Woman's Love is Sin; in consequence all the Loves & Graces with them are Sin.
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The number of guests at dinner should not be less than the number of the Graces nor exceed that of the Muses, i.e., it should begin with three and stop at nine.
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God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.
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Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter.
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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.
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The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.
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We thought we were made for each other. For almost a quarter of a century she has borne with my infirmities, and I have rejoiced in her graces...
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If there are amazing graces on this earth, I believe that they are these good children sent to us by God and not yet soiled by the knowledge that their nation does not love them.
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