Quotes with refine

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• Crises refine life. In them you discover what you are.

  Allan K. Chalmers
   
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• Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.

  Eliza Farnham
  American novelist, feminist and abolitionist (1815 - 1864)
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• It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.

  Leigh Hunt
  British poet, essaywriter (1784 - 1859)
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• Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in.

  Edmund Burke
  English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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• Many people believe the whole catastrophe is the oil we spill, but that gets diluted and eventually disarmed over time. In fact, the oil we don't spill, the oil we collect, refine and use, produces CO2 and other gases that don't get diluted.

  Carl Safina
  American ecologist and author (1955 - )
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• The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.

  Washington Irving
  American writer (1783 - 1859)
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• Truth is the trial of itself
  And needs no other touch,
  And purer than the purest gold,
  Refine it ne'er so much.

  The Touchstone of Truth

  Ben Jonson
  British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• satisfaction
• catastrophe
• insensible
• eventually
• operation
• disarmed

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