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• There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time. As the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of nature, as the light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles distant, as the poise of my body depends on the equilibrium of centrifugal and centripetal forces, so the hours should be instructed by the ages and the ages explained by the hours.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Stars, Book

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.16, Graphic Arts Books

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• Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.

  Seneca the Younger

  Greatness, Men, Pieces

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  As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Inspirational, Successful, Helping Others

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• Trends come like a series of ocean waves, bringing the high tide when things are good and, as conditions recede, the low tide appears. These trends come unexpectedly, unpredictably, and they have to be weathered with temperance, poise, and patience- good or bad.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Ocean, Trends, Tides

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• People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Women, I Hate You, Compassion

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• Dancing is imperatively needed to give poise to the nerves, schooling to the emotions, strength to the will, and to harmonize the feelings and the intellect with the body that supports them

  G. Stanley Hall

  Giving, Dancing, Support

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• Their unselfishness, the way they play and their poise factor. When you never panic, that's a great sign.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Winning, Play

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• Most people assume that a muse is a creature of perfect beauty, poise and grace. Like the creatures from Greek mythology. They're wrong. In fact, there should be a marked absence of perfection in a muse--a gaping hole between what she is and what she might be. The ideal muse is a woman whose rough edges and contradictions drive you to fill in the blanks of her character. She is the irritant to your creativity. A remarkable possibility, waiting to be formed.

  Kathleen Tessaro

  Creativity, Character, Rough Edges

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• On Chris Evert: Before I even met her, she stood for everything I admired in this country: poise, ability, sportsmanship, money, style.

  Martina Navratilova

  Sports, Country, Style

  MARTINA NAVRATILOVA (1985). “MARTINA”

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• Let us not be too much acquainted. I would have a man enter his house through a hall filled with heroic and sacred sculptures, that he might not want the hint of tranquillity and self-poise.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Self, House

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.433, Modern Library

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• Success brings poise, especially avoirdupois. Success comes before work only in the dictionary.

  William Cranch Bond

  Best Work, Dictionary, Hard Work Comes Success

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• The poise of a plant, the bended tree recovering itself from the strong wind, the vital resources of every vegetable and animal, are also demonstrations of the self-sufficing, and therefore self-relying soul. All history from its highest to its trivial passages is the various record of this power.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Animal, Self

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• How do we meditate silently? Just by not talking, just by not using outer words, we are not doing silent meditation. Silent meditation is totally different. When we start meditating in silence, right from the beginning we feel the bottom of a sea within us and without. The life of activity movement and restlessness is on the surface, but deep below, underneath our human life, there is poise and silence. So, either we shall imagine this sea of silence within us or we shall feel that we are nothing but a sea of poise itself.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Talking, Sea, Silence

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• Laughter brightens the eye, increases the perspiration, expands the chest, forces the poisoned air from the least-used cells, and tends to restore that exquisite poise or balance which we call health.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Laughter, Eye, Air

  Orison Swett Marden (2015). “Cheerfulness As A Life Power (Unabridged): How to Avoid the Soul-Consuming and Friction-Wearing Tendencies of Everyday Life”, p.5, e-artnow

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• When he looks back, the critic sees a eunuch's shadow. Who would be a critic if he could be a writer? Who would hammer out the subtlest insight into Dostoevsky if he could weld an inch of the Karamazovs, or argue the poise of Lawrence if he could shape the free gust of life in The Rainbow?

  George Steiner

  Rainbow, Shadow, Would Be

  George Steiner (1967). “Language and silence: essays on language, literature, and the inhuman”, Macmillan Pub Co

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• Poise the cause in justice's equal scales,
  Whose beam stands sure, whose rightful cause prevails.

  William Shakespeare

  Justice, Causes, Beam

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Rann (1791). “The dramatic works of Shakspeare: in six volumes”, p.256

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• Golf puts a man's character on the anvil and his richest qualities - patience, poise, restraint - to the flame.

  Billy Casper

  Character, Golf, Men

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• I've been an admirer of Helen Mirren for a long time. As I get older, I find myself admiring older women who have poise and elegance.

  Thomas Haden Church

  Long, Elegance, Admirer

  "Church's Doctrine". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. May 23, 2007.

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• Ambition is a devouring fire, who can poise it? It is a wind, who can fathom it? It is an abyss, who is able to recount the sources and issues thereof?

  Nicolas Caussin

  Ambition, Fire, Wind

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• All great undertakings are achieved through mighty obstacles. Keep up the deepest mental poise. Take not even the slightest notice of what puerile creatures may be saying against you.

  Swami Vivekananda

  May, Obstacles, Creatures

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• The president's job is a lot harder. And that's why I'm working hard to get him re-elected, because he's handled himself with a level of grace and poise that not many people could given the challenges that he's faced.

  Michelle Obama

  Jobs, People, Grace

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Steve Beaton - The adonis of darts, what poise, what elegance - a true roman gladiator with plenty of hair wax.

  Sid Waddell

  Hair, Elegance, Darts

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• People who know me, recognize a definite difference in my poise and in my personality, because I've grown.

  Karrine Steffans

  People, Personality, Know Me

  Source: aalbc.com

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• Others make a point of trying to attain the precision and poise they see in those who have the ability to choose from a great number of horses those with [...] qualities found in only a very small number of horses. This leads to a circumstance in which these imitators of such studied poise mortify the spirit of a noble horse, and remove from it all of the goodness of temperament Nature has given it.

  Francois Robichon de La Gueriniere

  Horse, Small Numbers, Trying

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• Ah, the truth, what a thing it is! I sacrifice so much for it, with people: I forego, for truth's sake, discretion, loyalty, diplomacy, tact, polite manners, elegance, grace, poise, balance, good taste, conformity, image-role, fashionableness, polish, confidences, promises, ambition, consistency, identity, clarity, comprehensibleness, good will, hypocrisy, and lots of other things--amass sacrifice, at truth's altar. God! is truth worth it? I hope it is. It better be, in fact.

  Marvin L. Cohen

  Loyalty, Truth, Ambition

  "Fables at Life's Expense". Book by Marvin Cohen, 1975.

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