#grace

The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

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The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Science, which is not so attached to 'truth' as it once was, ut more to immediate 'effectiveness', is now drifting towards a decline, it's civic fall from grace. ↗

— Paul Virilio

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Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times. ↗

— Martin Luther

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For among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible; which is one of those disgraceful things which a prince must guard against. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

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There, but for the grace of God, goes God. ↗

— Herman J. Mankiewicz

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For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph. ↗

— Thomas Mann

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I do think that it's extremely important with this character show her assuming power with a great deal of grace, and find out how to do things she won't like - the things she's called upon to do. ↗

— Mary McDonnell

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You can either grow old gracefully or begrudgingly. I chose both. ↗

— Roger Moore

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