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• The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.

  Doris Lessing

  Wise, Men, Mouths

  Doris Lessing (1999). “Ecclesiastes or, The Preacher”, p.34, Canongate Books

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• My life can be so arranged that I can live on whatever I have. If I cannot live as I have lived in the past, I shall live differently, and living differently does not mean living with less attention to the things that make life gracious and pleasant or with less enjoyment of things of the mind.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Mean, Past, Mind

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• Goodness is to do good to the deserving and love the good and hate the wicked, and not to be eager to inflict punishment or take vengeance, but to be gracious and kindly and forgiving.

  Aristotle

  Forgiveness, Hate, Punishment

  Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.2947, Delphi Classics

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• It must never be forgotten...that the liberties of the people are not so safe under the gracious manner of government as by the limitation of power.

  Richard Henry Lee

  Freedom, Power, Government

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• Corporate worship is a regular gracious reminder that it's not about you. You've been born into a life that is a celebration of another.

  Paul David Tripp

  Celebration, Worship, Born

  FaceBook post by Paul David Tripp from Jun 09, 2013

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• Open thy gate of mercy, gracious God, My soul flies through these wounds to seek out thee.

  William Shakespeare

  Mercy Of God, Soul, Thee

  William Shakespeare (2013). “First Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III”, p.501, BookCaps Study Guides

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• A gracious soul may look through the darkest cloud and see God smiling on him.

  Thomas Brooks

  Clouds, Soul, Looks

  Thomas Brooks (1824). “The select works of ... Thomas Brooks”, p.355

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• Donald Trump has been nothing but gracious, and a gentleman and a wonderful mentor and boss to me, and to other women. So that's all, that would be my personal choice; not a demand on me.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Choices, Boss, Gentleman

  Source: www.politico.com

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• When the Holy Spirit sanctifies believers, he does a complete work in them. He puts into their minds, wills and hearts a gracious, supernatural principle which fills them with a holy desire to live to God. The whole life and being of holiness lies in this. This is the new creation.

  John Owen

  Lying, Heart, Mind

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• It was nothing less than a stretch of divine love for Jesus to give himself for our sins. It was gracious for the Infinite to conceive of such a thing; but for him to carry it out was glorious beyond all.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Giving, Sin

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 30: Sermons 1757-1815”, p.704, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Jesus, I don't want to be a secret keeper with my faith. I want to be a bold and gracious truth proclaimer. For You. With You. Because of You. Me, the unwanted girl whom You loved, redeemed and wanted.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Girl, Jesus, Secret

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Jun 24, 2014

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• The humanity of famous intellectuals lies in being wrong with gracious courtesy when dealing with those who are not famous.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Humility, Humanity

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• Take advantage of the gracious condescension of the elegant calf's kidney, multiply its metamorphoses: you can without giving it any offence, call it the chameleon of cuisine.

  Emmanuel des Essarts

  Food, Giving, Cooking

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• We have nothing to fear and a great deal to learn from trees, that vigorours and pacific tribe which without stint produces strengthening essences for us, soothing balms, and in whose gracious company we spend so many cool, silent, and intimate hours.

  Marcel Proust

  Fear, Learning, Essence

  Marcel Proust (1957). “Pleasures and days: and other writings”

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• The reality is that all God has to do is reveal himself to you,and you'll gladly join the mission in service to his kingdom. He doesn't force the issue; he just has to reveal himself as is: mighty,wondrous, gracious, loving, and radically saving. No man goes back to saltine crackers when he's had fillet mignon.

  Matt Chandler

  Reality, Men, Issues

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• The truths of life are not discovered by us. At moments unforeseen, some gracious influence descends upon the soul, touching it to an emotion which, we know not how, the mind transmutes into thought.

  George Gissing

  Truth, Honesty, Soul

  George Gissing (2016). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”, p.148, The Floating Press

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• A prayerful life is the key to possessing gratitude. We often take for granted the people who most deserve our gratitude. Let us not wait until it is too late for us to express our gratitude. Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. If I gratitude be numbered among the serious sins, then gratitude takes its place among the noblest of virtues. To express gratitude is gracious and honorable, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live with gratitude ever in our hearts is to touch heaven.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Gratitude, Heart, Keys

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• A woman's greatest charm consists in a constant appeal to a man's generosity by a gracious declaration of helplessness which fills him with pride and awakens the most magnificent feelings in his heart.

  Honore de Balzac

  Heart, Pride, Men

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• Is life worth living?
  Yes, so long as there is wrong to right.
  So long as faith with freedom reigns and loyal hope survives,
  And gracious charity remains to leaven lowly lives;
  While there is only one untrodden tract for intellect or will,
  And men are free to think and act,
  Life is worth living still.

  Alfred Austin

  Life, Men, Thinking

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• Good morning to you, fair and gracious daughter.

  William Shakespeare

  Daughter, Morning, Fairness

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Making Sense of Measure for Measure! a Students Guide to Shakespeare's Play (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelli”, p.195, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Commercialism is the blemish on the fair face of American life. Fighting against the terrible conditions of the explorer and pioneer, our forefathers had little time to think of beauty. Hearts and heads became as hardened to the more gracious things of life as did their bodies against physical hardship. Little by little, as nature yielded before the dynamite of their wills, life began to express itself in the same hard terms, and the great commerce of a New World bent everything to its indomitable will.

  Alice Foote MacDougall

  Business, Heart, Fighting

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• That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Light, Rainbow, Tears

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, May Byron, William Hazlitt, James Gillman (2015). “Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Man Behind The Lyrics (Illustrated Edition): Autobiographical Works (Memoirs, Complete Letters, Literary Introspection, Thoughts and Notes on Poetry); Including Extensive Biographies and Studies on S. T. Coleridge”, p.1304, e-artnow

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• Unfinished business is our worst business. Perpetual procrastination must yield to perceptive preparation. Today we have a little more time to bless others-time to be kinder, more compassionate, quicker to thank and slower to scold, more generous in sharing, more gracious in caring.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Procrastination, Caring, Unfinished Business

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• Isn’t this what I said, Lord, when I was still at home? That is what I tried to forestall by fleeing to Tarshish. I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abounding in love, a God who relents from sending calamity. 3 Now, Lord, take away my life, for it is better for me to die than to live.

  Jonah

  Home, Fleeing, Lord

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