Elijah Fenton Quotes
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I see that already in this present world I am exalted above measure by the Lord. And I was not worthy nor such a one as that he should grant this to me, since I know most surely that poverty and affliction become me better than delights and riches.
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Among the many things that have slipped up on me while my back was turned are all of these challenging and well-manicured public courses that have sprung up across America with elegant bars and restaurants.
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What delights us in the spring is more a sensation than an appearance, more a hope than any visible reality. There is something in the softness of the air, in the lengthening of the days, in the very sounds and odors of the sweet time, that caresses us and consoles us after the rigorous weeks of winter.
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We would have to settle for the elegant goal of becoming ourselves.
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Admiration is one of the chief delights of living.
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As to the mouth, it delights at times in laughter; it is disposed to impart all that the brain conceives; though I daresay it would be silent on much the heart experiences. Mobile and flexible, it was never intended to be compressed in the eternal silence of solitude: it is a mouth which should speak much and smile often, and have human affection for its interlocutor.
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A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant.
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Each man delights in the work that suits him best.
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The virtuous man delights in this world and he delights in the next.
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I like the beach and would also love to learn golf because I think it is rather elegant for an older lady.
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Clothes, like good architecure, have to correspond to a rhythm of life. You can't be elegant without being graceful, and you can't be graceful if you're not at ease.
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I totally disagree with Christian Dior, who once said the one could never look sexy and be elegant at the same time. It is just more difficult that's all.
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And now the bride begins to move. Little mechanical doll, clinging to her husband’s arm, climbing into the carriage. Her white silk stocking, her elegant shoe.
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My heart rushes into the garden, joyfully tasting all the delights. But reason frowns, disapproving of the heart's bad manners.
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When you say your Rosary, the angels rejoice, the Blessed Trinity delights in it, my Son finds joy in it too, and I myself am happier than you can possibly guess. After the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, there is nothing in the Church that I love as much as the Rosary.
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I thought it was very elegant, a wonderful opening. The vegans seemed so surprised-God knows what they get to eat.
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I kept.. ..returning to the (ancient Roman) wall paintings with their veiled melancholy and elegant plasticity.
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Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.
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I try to be elegant.
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A brute force solution that works is better than an elegant solution that doesn't work.
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After all, [female genital mutilation is] a key pillar of institutional misogyny in Islam: its entire purpose is to deny women sexual pleasure. True, a lot of us hapless western men find we deny women sexual pleasure without even trying, but we don't demand genital mutilation to guarantee it. On such slender distinctions does civilization rest.
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The Britons (say historians) were naked, civilized men, learned, studious, abstruse in thought and contemplation; naked, simple, plain in their acts and manners; wiser than after ages.
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Those elegant delights of jig and vaulting.
