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All the arts of refinement have mutual kinship.
Refinement is the delicate aroma of Christianity.
Program construction consists of a sequence of refinement steps.
Civilization consists in the multiplication and refinement of human wants.
A feast not profuse but elegant; more of salt [refinement] than of expense.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is solid refinement.
The furnace of affliction produces refinement, in states as well as individuals.
A pilgrimage is an admirable remedy for over-fastidiousness and sickly refinement.
I find theater very lazy and artificial, and then when it's not, it lacks refinement.
Drive Nature forth by force, she'll turn and rout The false refinements that would keep her out.
Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure.
I like to play the lute full-bloodedly, with passion, as well as with delicacy and, I hope, refinement.
I've played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction.
That only can with propriety be styled refinement which, by strengthening the intellect, purifies the manners.
The imagination is an innate gift, but it needs refinement and cultivation; this is what the humanities provide.
I'm becoming more and more myself with time. I guess that's what grace is. The refinement of your soul through time.
It’s only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdry that you can get tenderness.
But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties.
The zenith of elegance in any woman's wardrobe is the little black dress, the power of which suggests dash and refinement.
As the flagrant foul's official mascot, Anthony Mason had the genteel refinement of an intentional elbow to the eye socket.
We built the iPod in weeks. It had to be what I thought it was going to be because there wasnt time for endless refinements.
Engineering is about finding solutions with a commitment to ongoing refinement. That's what engineering training teaches you.
Modesty in dress and language and deportment is a true mark of refinement and a hallmark of a virtuous Latter-day Saint woman.
I think art is not an ornament or refinement at the fringes of human intelligence, I think it's at the center. It's at the core.
Refinement creates beauty everywhere. It is the grossness of the spectator that discovers anything like grossness in the object.
I didn't go to high school, and I didn't go to grade school either. Education, I think, is for refinement and is probably a liability.
There is still refinement needed - we are working on being able to do the same things at lower light levels and with a larger field of view.
You go through a process of refinement and getting rid of the excesses of your early youth in terms of your excitement about what theatre can do.
With a woman of sophistication, class and modesty and refinement, I become a totally tongue-tied buffoon. I can't even look her straight in the face.
Rawness and refinement are not opposite ends of a luxurious spectrum... they are two complementary features with which to populate a luxe environment.
The feeling of an evolution is a constant for every artist who is pursuing the search of refinement and enlargement of his/her own means of expression.
The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes.
Encourage good music and art and literature in your homes. Homes that have a spirit of refinement and beauty will bless the lives of your children forever.
We were astonished by the beauty and refinement of the art displayed by the objects surpassing all we could have imagined - the impression was overwhelming.
Be not unwilling in what thou doest, neither selfish nor unadvised nor obstinate; let not over-refinement deck out thy thought; be not wordy nor a busybody.
I think 'Chef' is about somebody who's in the middle of his life, and he's kind of lost his passion and his voice, so he seeks out some refinement and redemption.
Wealth brings with it refinement, the spirit of conservation, while poverty inspires adventurous ideas, the desire to change things, and has little care for life.
I've always been battling against my sense of dignity and refinement. I was embarrassed by any bodily functions when I was younger. I could never even blow my nose.
To have one's own story told by a third party who doesn't know that the character in question is himself the hero of the story being told, that's a technical refinement.
The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect.
If I could create an ideal world, it would be an England with the fire of the Elizabethans, the correct taste of the Georgians, and the refinement and pure ideals of the Victorians.
The ministers of Christ should possess refinement. All uncouth manners, attitudes and gestures should be discarded, and they should encourage in themselves humble dignity of bearing.
The religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance: it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion.
Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society.
Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.
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.
Chestnuts are my favorite ingredient to use in the fall, especially for the holidays. I always find that they are meaty, hearty and have a mysterious refinement when cooked or roasted over sea salt.
The way a woman carries herself and the way she dresses ought to promote the following types of words: modesty, discretion, wisdom, beauty, elegance and refinement, but not sensuality, luxury, extravagance.
God's arrows of affliction are sharp and painful so He can get our attention. He won't let His beloved children get away with sin because He knows it robs us of blessings, opportunities, and even character refinement.