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Always accept good fortune with grace and humility.
Always accept good fortune with grace and humility.
There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford.
There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford.
Beauty is grace and confidence. I've learned to accept and appreciate what nature gave me.
Beauty is grace and confidence. I've learned to accept and appreciate what nature gave me.
 Stately and tall he moves in the hall,
 The chief of a thousand for grace.  
 Stately and tall he moves in the hall,
 The chief of a thousand for grace. 
We're all stumbling towards the light with varying degrees of grace at any given moment.
We're all stumbling towards the light with varying degrees of grace at any given moment.
Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
How inimitably graceful children are before they learn to dance.
How inimitably graceful children are before they learn to dance.
 LightWinged Smoke 
Lightwinged Smoke, Icarian bird, 
Melting thy pinions in thy upward flight, 
Lark without song, and read more 
 LightWinged Smoke 
Lightwinged Smoke, Icarian bird, 
Melting thy pinions in thy upward flight, 
Lark without song, and the messenger of dawn, 
Circling above the hamlets as thy nest; 
Or else, departing dream, and shadowy form 
Of midnight vision, gathering up thy skirts; 
By night star-veiling, and by day 
Darkening the light and blotting out the sun; 
Go thou my incense upward from this hearth, 
And ask the gods to pardon this clear flame.
-Henry David Thoreau-. 
 Full many a lady
 I have eyed with best regard, and many a time
  Th' harmony of read more 
 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.