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Grace is a quality different from beauty, though nearly allied to it, which is never observed without affecting us with emotions of peculiar delight, and which it is, perhaps, the first object of the arts of sculpture and painting to study and to present. - Sir Archibald Alison A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation. - Francis Bacon A pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation. - Francis Bacon Her step is music, and her voice is song. - Philip James Bailey Grace comes often clad in the dusky robe of desolation. - Francis Beaumont The mother grace of all the graces is Christian good-will. - Henry Ward Beecher Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace. - Bible, Galatians (ch. V, v. 4) An outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace. - Book of Common Prayer, Catechism There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford. - John Bradford, Writings (vol. II), said upon seeing a criminal pass by It is the very nature of grace to make a man strive to be most eminent in that particular grace which is most opposed to his bosom sin. - Thomas Brooks There is no such way to attain to greater measures of grace, as for a man to live up to that little grace he has. - Thomas Brooks There are true graces, which, as Homer feigns, are linked and tied hand in hand, because it is by their influence that human hearts are so firmly united to each other. - Robert Burton Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will to choose good with the assistance of grace; evil, when grace is absent. - John Calvin It is graceful in a man to think and to speak with propriety, to act with deliberation, and in every occurrence of life to find out and persevere in the truth. On the other hand, to be imposed upon, to mistake, to falter, and to be deceived, is as ungraceful as to rave or to be insane. - Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) (often called "Tully" for short) Whatever is graceful is virtuous, and whatever is virtuous is graceful. - Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) (often called "Tully" for short) Grace is given of god, but knowledge is bought in the market. - Arthur Hugh Clough Riches may enable us to confer favors; but to confer them with propriety and with grace requires a something that riches cannot give. Even trifles may be so bestowed as to cease to be trifles. - Charles Caleb Colton God giveth true grace to but a chosen few, however many aspire to it. - Orville Dewey Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. - John Dryden Whatever he did, was done with so much ease, In him alone 'twas natural to please. - John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel (pt. I, l. 27) Grace is the outcome of inward harmony. - Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Every natural action is graceful. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Stately and tall he moves in the hall, The chief of a thousand for grace. - Kate Franklin, Life at Olympus--Godey's Lady's Book (vol. XXIII, p. 33) All actions and attitudes of children are graceful because they are the luxuriant and immediate offspring of the moment,--divested of affectation and free from all pretence. - Henry Fuseli The grace will carry us, if we do not willfully betray our succors, victoriously through all difficulties. - Henry Hammond Displaying page 1 of 4 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2 3 4
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