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~ The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it. ~ ~ To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never. In a word to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony. ~ ~ Though I like the various forms of football in the world, I don't think they begin to compare with these two great Anglo-Saxon ball games for sophisticated elegance and symbolism. Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base - in both senses - greed. With football we are back to the monotonous clashing armor of the brontosaurus. ~ ~ For me, elegance is not to pass unnoticed but to get to the very soul of what one is. ~ ~ If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure. ~ ~ The elegance of honesty needs no adornment. ~ ~ To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance. ~ ~ The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety ~ ~ Knowledge is the only elegance. ~ ~ Elegance is not an ornament worthy of man. ~ ~ Simplicity, carried to an extreme, becomes elegance. ~ ~ What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance ~ |
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