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• True love blooms when we care more about another person than we care about ourselves. That is Christ's great atoning example for us, and it ought to be more evident in the kindness we show, the respect we give, and the selflessness and courtesy we employ in our personal relationships.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Love, Inspirational, Relationship

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• If you are a member of a small group or class, I urge you to make a group covenant that includes the nine characteristics of biblical fellowship: We will share our true feelings (authenticity), forgive each other (mercy), speak the truth in love (honesty), admit our weaknesses (humility), respect our differences (courtesy), not gossip (confidentiality), and make group a priority (frequency).

  Rick Warren

  Honesty, Humility, Biblical

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• Everything is perfect. Everything is fine. The rules of life are made up. The rules only exist in your mind. Of course there may be courtesies And closures and laws to abide, But the zeal with which you play Relies on where YOU draw the line

  Jason Mraz

  Law, Play, Perfect

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• BTW, the roach's name is Max (courtesy of Brianna, "because of I had a puppy, I'd name him Max").

  Rachel Renée Russell

  Names, Max, Roaches

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• …he is unlike the other customers. They sense it too, and look at him with hard eyes, eyes like little metal studs pinned into the white faces of young men [...] In the hush his entrance creates, the excessive courtesy the weary woman behind the counter shows him amplifies his strangeness. He orders coffee quietly and studies the rim of the cup to steady the sliding in his stomach. He had thought, he had read, that from shore to shore all America was the same. He wonders, Is it just these people I’m outside or is it all America?

  John Updike

  Coffee, Eye, Men

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• Through the forest have I gone. But Athenian found I none, On whose eyes I might approve This flower's force in stirring love. Night and silence.--Who is here? Weeds of Athens he doth wear: This is he, my master said, Despised the Athenian maid; And here the maiden, sleeping sound, On the dank and dirty ground. Pretty soul! she durst not lie Near this lack-love, this kill-courtesy. Churl, upon thy eyes I throw All the power this charm doth owe. When thou wakest, let love forbid Sleep his seat on thy eyelid: So awake when I am gone; For I must now to Oberon.

  William Shakespeare

  Weed, Lying, Dirty

  William Shakespeare, Thomas Bowdler (1850). “The Family Shakspeare, in One Volume: In which Nothing is Added to the Original Text, But Those Words and Expressions are Omitted which Cannot with Propriety be Read in a Family”, p.136

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• Nothing sharpens the arrow of sarcasm so keenly as the courtesy that polishes it; no reproach is like that we clothe with a smile and present with a bow.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Sarcasm, Arrows, Bows

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• Ah, whither shall a maiden flee, When a bold youth so swift pursues, And siege of tenderest courtesy, With hope perseverant, still renews!

  Coventry Patmore

  Siege, Youth, Maidens

  Coventry Patmore (1853). “Tamerton Church-tower: And Other Poems”, p.85

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• Approved valor is made precious by natural courtesy.

  Philip Sidney

  Natural, Made, Valor

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• Let the realist not mind appearances. Let him delegate to others the costly courtesies and decorations of social life. The virtuesare economists, but some of the vices are also. Thus, next to humility, I have noticed that pride is a pretty good husband. A good pride is, as I reckon it, worth from five hundred to fifteen hundred a year.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Husband, Humility, Pride

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.61, Harvard University Press

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• Curiosity and courtesy are very often at variance.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Curiosity, Variance

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• In other countries they speak of nobility and courtesy, in London they practise it.

  Frances Xavier Cabrini

  Country, London, Speak

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• I root for hurricanes. When, courtesy of the Weather Channel, I see one forming in the ocean off the coast of Africa, I find myself longing for it to become big and strong--Mother Nature's fist of fury, Gaia's stern rebuke. Considering the havoc mankind has wreaked upon nature with deforesting, stripmining, and the destruction of animal habitat, it only seems fair that nature get some of its own back and teach us that there are forces greater than our own.

  James Wolcott

  Mother, Strong, Stupid

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• Of courtesy, it is much less Than courage of heart or holiness, Yet in my walks it seems to me That the Grace of God is in courtesy.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Courage, Heart, Grace

  Verses (1910) "Courtesy"

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• New York City does not hold our former selves against us. Perhaps we can extend the same courtesy.

  Colson Whitehead

  New York, Self, Cities

  Colson Whitehead (2018). “The Colossus of New York”, p.13, Hachette UK

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• Never say an unkind word to anyone.

  Doug Melvin

  Unkind Words, Kind Words, Unkind

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• We live in a time of instant everything, courtesy of the electronic highway. It creates a community of toddlers. When they don't get immediate gratification, they get petulant and sulky.

  Faye Kellerman

  Community, Investing, Sulky

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• When friends are at your hearthside met, Sweet courtesy has done its most If you have made each guest forget That he himself is not the host.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Thank You, Sweet, Done

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1907). “The writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich”

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• High-erected thoughts seated in the heart of courtesy.

  Philip Sidney

  Heart

  "The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia". Book by Philip Sidney. Book 1, 1590.

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• I am not prepared to deny or assert any proposition which concerns myself; but certainly this solitary struggle with platitudinous atoms, called men and women by courtesy, leads me to wish for my wife again. How did I ever hit on the only woman in the world who fits my cravings and never sounds hollow anywhere? Social chemistry-the mutual attraction of equivalent human molecules-is a science yet to be created, for the fact is my daily study and only satisfaction in life.

  Henry Adams

  Struggle, Men, Satisfaction In Life

  Henry Adams (1982). “The Letters of Henry Adams, Volumes 1-3: 1858-1892”, p.28, Harvard University Press

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• Civility, which is a disposition to accommodate and oblige others, is essentially the same in every country; but good breeding, asit is called, which is the manner of exerting that disposition, is different in almost every country, and merely local; and every man of sense imitates and conforms to that local good breeding of the place which he is at.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Country, Men, Different

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• From the beginning it was drilled into me that a golf course was a place where character fully reveals itself -- both its strengths and its flaws. As a result, I learned early not only to fix my ball marks but also to congratulate an opponent on a good shot, avoid walking ahead of a player preparing to shoot, remain perfectly still when someone else was playing, and a score of other small courtesies that revealed, in my father's mind, one's abiding respect for the game.

  Arnold Palmer

  Father, Character, Golf

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• A man who understands decorum and the courtesies is a great treasure; I hope to train and send into society as many such men as I can.

  Mas Oyama

  Men, Treasure, Decorum

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• If the earth does grow inhospitable toward human presence, it is primarily because we have lost our sense of courtesy toward the earth and its inhabitants.

  Thomas Berry

  Kindness, Empathy, Doe

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• If kindness has falseness at its base, it is no longer kindness. It is labored courtesy.

  Piero Ferrucci

  Kindness, Falseness, Ifs

  Piero Ferrucci (2007). “The Power of Kindness: The Unexpected Benefits of Leading a Compassionate Life”, p.34, Penguin

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