As to the pure all things are pure, so the common mind sees far more vulgarity in others than the mind developed… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
To become balanced, meditate on the heart center in the center of the chest. There you will experience happiness, refinement, sensitivity, beauty,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Style is a continuum. Style never changes. It's a straight line. It's a refinement of the same vocabulary. Style takes you from… — Ralph Rucci Copy Share Image
Refinement creates beauty everywhere. It is the grossness of the spectator that discovers anything like grossness in the object. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
When you are but slightly involved in the world, the effect the world has on you is also slight. When you are… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
It has always seemed to me that a love of natural objects, and the depth, as well as exuberance and refinement of… — Frederick William Faber Copy Share Image
Madame Michel has the elegance of the hedgehog: on the outside she is covered in quills, a real fortress, but my gut… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
Left to herself, nature is always more or less civilized, and delights in a certain refinement; but where the axe has encroached… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The charities of life are scattered everywhere, enameling the vales of human beings as the flowers paint the meadows. They are not… — George Bancroft Copy Share Image
Conventional sports have undergone an evolution in training methods during the last fifty years. Curiosity and the inherent improvement brought about by… — Steve House Copy Share Image
A design may be called organic when there is an harmonious organization of the parts within the whole, according to structure, material,… — Eliot Noyes Copy Share Image
The process of design starts with exploration, but ends with refinement. The best designers carefully move from one to the other, making… — Jared Spool Copy Share Image
A semi-civilized state of society, equally removed from the extremes of barbarity and of refinement, seems to be that particular meridian under… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It is important to remember that value investing is not a perfect science. It is an, with an ongoing need for judgment,… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
The Great Being saith: Human utterance is an essence which aspireth to exert its influence and needeth moderation. As to its influence,… — Bahá'u'lláh Copy Share Image
Have you ever noticed how few sitting places you find in private gardens? How seldom the versatility and importance of benches is… — Mirabel Osler Copy Share Image
Nature has taken more care than the fondest parent for the education and refinement of her children. Consider the silent influencewhich flowers… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Chestnuts are my favorite ingredient to use in the fall, especially for the holidays. I always find that they are meaty, hearty… — Geoffrey Zakarian Copy Share Image
Does power bring happiness? Does it bring refinement? Does it bring humor? Does it bring a good-heartedness, or is it just cold?… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Luxury, or a refinement on the pleasures and conveniences of life, had long been supposed the source of every corruption in government,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I purpose publishing these Letters here in the world before I return to you. Two editions. One, unedited, for Bible readers and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Refinement. A man who is decorous and mannerly. One who is– (Nora) Boring. (Cat) How so? (Nora) Have you ever been around… — Kinley MacGregor Copy Share Image
American women of wealth, education, virtue and refinement, if you do not wish the lower orders of Chinese, Africans, Germans and Irish,… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
That alone can be called true refinement which elevates the soul of man, purifying the manners by improving the intellect. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
We know the degree of refinement in people by the matter they laugh at and the ring of the laugh. — George Meredith Copy Share Image
It’s only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdry that you can get tenderness. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
Refinement that carries us away from our fellow-men is not God's refinement. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
It was a subtle refinement of God to learn Greek when he wished to write a book – and that he did… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A pilgrimage is an admirable remedy for over-fastidiousness and sickly refinement. — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
“Refinement is the sign of deficient vitality, in art, in love, and in everything.” — E.M. Cioran Copy Share Image
True delicacy, as true generosity, is more wounded by an offence from itself--if I may be allowed the expression--than to itself. — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
“Every day, strive to refine your contagious shine, and shake the nonsense offered by those who lack the will to polish-up from… — T.F. Hodge Copy Share Image
Beauty lies in harmony, not in contrast; and harmony is refinement; therefore, there must be a fineness of the senses if we… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
There is still refinement needed - we are working on being able to do the same things at lower light levels and… — Stefan Hell Copy Share Image
Rawness and refinement are not opposite ends of a luxurious spectrum... they are two complementary features with which to populate a luxe… — Kelly Wearstler Copy Share Image
Gynaecologists are very smooth indeed. Because they have to listen to woeful and sordid symptoms they develop an expression of refinement and… — Richard Asher Copy Share Image
