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Grace
«It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.»
Author: Lydia Maria Francis Child
(Children's author, Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Elderly,
Grace,
Happiness,
Old age
| Keywords:
attainment, gracefully, happily
«I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.»
Author: Wendell Berry
| About:
Grace,
Grief,
Life,
Peace
| Keywords:
come into, forethought, Peace of
«Learn to limit yourself; to content yourself with some definite work; dare to be what you are and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not; and to believe in your own individuality.»
Author: Henri Frederic Amiel
| About:
Belief,
Grace,
Learning,
Limits
| Keywords:
definite, individuality, limit, resign, resigning
«If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
Courtesy,
Grace,
Relationships
| Keywords:
citizen, Continent, courteous, cutting off, cut off, gracious, island, joins, lands, show off, Strangers
«Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Civilization,
Grace
| Keywords:
derived, divine grace, smiled, Voltaire, wept
«I know nothing, except what everyone knows ? if there when Graces dances, I should dance.»
Author: W. H. Auden
(Dramatist, Editor, Poet)
| About:
Dancing,
Grace,
Knowledge
| Keywords:
dances, know nothing, the Graces
«If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| About:
Grace
| Keywords:
submit, wasteful