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"Such an act That blurs the grace and blush of modesty; Calls virtue hypocrite; takes off the rose From the fair forehead of an innocent love, And sets a blister there; makes marriage vows As false as dicers' oaths."
"When once our grace we have forgot, Nothing goes right."
"For truth hath better deeds than words to grace it."
"Full many a lady I have eyed with best regard, and many a time Th' harmony of their tongues hath into bondage Brought my too diligent ear; for several virtues Have I liked several women; never any With so full soul but some defect in her Did quarrel with the noblest grace she owed, And put it to the foil."
"They may have been ugly. They may have been evil. But when it came to poetry in motion, the Things had all the grace and coordination of a deck-chair."
"Man is closer to God according to his existence in grace than he is according to his existence in nature."
"None so empty of grace as he that thinks he is full."
"Those same forces that drive a genius to create the things or ideas that entertain or enlighten us often gobble so much of his personality that he has none left for the social graces."
"Grace is to be let into a place that you don't have a right to be."
"Let us preach grace till humility just starts to grow in us."
"The deeper the experience of the free grace of God, the more generous we must become."
"There is a direct relationship between a person's grasp and experience of God's grace, and his or her heart for justice and the poor."
"The secret was to just be cool, stay in God's graces, and work it out."
"Stick around long enough, you'll get some grace."
"If you depend on God's grace there is no such thing as impossible."
"For a psychoanalyst to be any good... he'd have to believe that it was through the grace of God that he'd been inspired to study psychoanalysis in the first place."
"Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace."
"There are some people upon whom their very faults and failings sit gracefully; and there are others whose very excellencies and accomplishments do not become them."
"It is rash to intrude upon the piety of others: both the depth and the grace of it elude the stranger."
"Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully: a clown, whatever he may do, will never pass for a gentleman. [Fr., Ne forcons point notre talent; Nous ne ferions rien avec grace: Jamais un lourdaud, quoi qu'il fasse, Ne saurit passer pour galant.]"
