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That alone can be called true refinement which elevates the soul of man, purifying the manners by improving the intellect. - Hosea Ballou Refinement is the lifting of one's self upwards from the merely sensual; the effort of the soul to etherealize the common wants and uses of life. - Henry Ward Beecher Refinement that carries us away from our fellow-men is not God's refinement. - Henry Ward Beecher That only can with propriety be styled refinement which, by strengthening the intellect, purifies the manners. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge No improvement that takes place in either sex can possibly be confined to itself. Each is a universal mirror to each, and the respective refinement of the one will always be in reciprocal proportion to the polish of the other. - Charles Caleb Colton Far better, and more cheerfully, I could dispense with some part of the downright necessaries of life, than with certain circumstances of elegance and propriety in the daily habits of using them. - Thomas De Quincey ("The Opium Eater") Among all the accomplishments of life none are so important as refinement; it is not, like beauty, a gift of Nature, and can only be acquired by cultivation and practice. - James Ellis True delicacy, as true generosity, is more wounded by an offence from itself--if I may be allowed the expression--than to itself. - Sir Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke, Lord Brooke Refinement creates beauty everywhere. It is the grossness of the spectator that discovers anything like grossness in the object. - William Hazlitt (1) To refine and polish is a part of our work in this world. - Joel Tyler Headley If refined sense, and exalted sense, be not so useful as common sense, their rarity, their novelty, and the nobleness of their objects, make some compensation, and render them the admiration of mankind. - David Hume It is in refinement and elegance that the civilized man differs from the savage. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") Refinement is superior to beauty. - Constantine Lascaris A woman must be truly refined to incite chivalry in the heart of a man. - Madame Suzanne Curchod Necker Ages of ignorance and simplicity are thought to be ages of purity. But the direct contrary I believe to be the case. Rude periods have that grossness of manners, which is as unfriendly to virtue as luxury itself. Men are less ashamed as they are less polished. - Thomas Warton, the Younger The expressive word "quiet" defines the dress, manners, bow, and even physiognomy of every true denizen of St. James and Bond street. - Nathaniel Parker Willis Refinement is just as much a Christian grace in a man as in a woman; but he is not such a hateful, unsexed creature without it as a woman is. - Charlotte Mary Yonge Refinement is the delicate aroma of Christianity. - Charlotte Mary Yonge
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