quotes about Refinement
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All education should be directed toward the refinement of the individual's sensibilities in relation not only to one's fellow humans everywhere, but to all living things whatsoever.
-- Ashley Montagu -
Refinement is the delicate aroma of Christianity.
-- Charlotte Mary Yonge -
There is nothing so catching as refinement.
-- Emily EdenSource : Emily Eden (1861). “The Semi-attached Couple”, p.356
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Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is solid refinement.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
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A pilgrimage is an admirable remedy for over-fastidiousness and sickly refinement.
-- Henry Theodore TuckermanSource : Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1850). “The optimist”, p.46
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Refinement that carries us away from our fellow-men is not God's refinement.
-- Henry Ward Beecher -
Drive Nature forth by force, she'll turn and rout The false refinements that would keep her out.
-- Horace -
The blessing which we associate with a life of refinement and cultivation can be made universal and must be made universal if they are to be permanent.
-- Jane Addams -
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It’s only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdry that you can get tenderness.
-- Lawrence Durrell -
A feast not profuse but elegant; more of salt [refinement] than of expense.
-- Lord Byron -
It is one proof of a good education and of true refinement of feeling, to respect antiquity.
-- Sigourney Weaver -
Far better, and more cheerfully, I could dispense with some part of the downright necessaries of life, than with certain circumstances of elegance and propriety in the daily habits of using them.
-- Thomas de Quincey -