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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.
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.
 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-. 
Grace is savage and must be savage in order to be perfect.
Grace is savage and must be savage in order to be perfect.
 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. 
Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
 From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part,
 And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.  
 From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part,
 And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art. 
An outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace.
An outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace.
Do you know that the ready concession of minor points is a part of the grace of life?
Do you know that the ready concession of minor points is a part of the grace of life?