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"Her profile as well as her stature and bearing seemed to gain the more dignity from her plain garments, which by the side of provincial fashion gave her the impressiveness of a fine quotation from the Bible,-or from one of our elder poets,-in a paragraph of to-day's newspaper."
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"You must be wise and act with wisdom."
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"With awareness and practice, even the most awkward people can learn how to be both fluid and purposeful in their bearing."
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"Grounded by healthy self-esteem and personal self-worth, this admirable character quality can inspire awe and reverence."
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"Lady Katsa, is it?" "Yes, Lord Prince.""I've heard you have one eye green as the Middluns grasses, and the other eye blue as the sky.""Yes, Lord Prince.""I've heard you can kill a man with the nail of your smallest finger."She smiled. "Yes, Lord Prince.""Does it make it easier?""I don't understand you.""To have beautiful eyes. Does it lighten the burden of your Grace, to know you have beautiful eyes?"
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"Mercy and favor are miracles of God that give a man something he could not even dare to dream of."
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"With grace you can realise your goals."
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"Grace is neither gentleness nor fragility. Grace is treating yourself, others, and even inanimate objects with respect."
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"Grace is available to us from God, but it is located in our place of work."
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"...I stood there, inexpressibly grateful that my life, for all its terrors, is so filled with moments of grace."
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"Grace means suddenly you're in a different universe from the one where you were stuck, and there was absolutely no way for you to get there on your own."
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"Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty."
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"Her own misery filled her heart-there was no room in it for other people's sorrow."
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"Mr. Craig was not above talking politics occasionally, though he piqued himself rather on a wise insight than on specific information."
Politics

"He has got no good red blood in his body," said Sir James."No. Somebody put a drop under a magnifying glass, and it was all semicolons and parentheses," said Mrs. Cadwallader."
Humor

"A really cultured woman, like a really cultured man, is all the simpler and the less obtrusive for her knowledge; it has made her see herself and her opinions in something like just proportions; she does not make it a pedestal from which she flatters herself that she commands a complete view of men and things, but makes it a point of observation from which to form a right estimate of herself. She neither spouts poetry nor quotes Cicero on slight provocation; not because she thinks that a sacrifice must be made to the prejudices of men, but because that mode of exhibiting her memory and Latinity does not present itself to her as edifying or graceful."
Culture

"You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing."
Faith

"Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals."
Power

"My dear Mrs Casaubon," said Farebrother, smiling gently at her ardour, "character is not cut in marble - it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.""Then it may be rescued and healed," said Dorothea."
Philosophy

"Author describes one character's optimism as, that quiet well-being which perhaps you and I have felt on a sunny afternoon when, in our brightest youth and health, life has opened a new vista for us, and long to-morrows of activity have stretched before us like a lovely plain which there was no need for hurrying to look at, because it was all our own."
Emotion

"She was no longer struggling against the perception of facts, but adjusting herself to their clearest perception."
Reality
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