There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford.

There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford.

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the read more

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.

Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.

Here comes one with a paper: God give him grace to groan!

Here comes one with a paper: God give him grace to groan!

Teach me to live that I may dread
The grace as little as my bed.

Teach me to live that I may dread
The grace as little as my bed.

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that read more

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.

Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul

Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul

There but for the grace of God go I

There but for the grace of God go I

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-.