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Graces

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Graces pl (plural only)

(Greek mythology) Three sister goddesses in Greek mythology (Euphrosyne, Aglaia, and Thalia), in whom beauty was deified.


Graces

plural of Grace

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Nothing graces the Christian soul so much as mercy; mercy as shown chiefly towards the poor, that thou mayest treat them as sharers in common with thee in the produce of nature, which brings forth the fruits of the earth for use to all. Ambrose

Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces. Matthew Henry

Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter. William Shakespeare

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, That he hath turn'd a heaven unto a hell! William Shakespeare

Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings but those who are in a state of mediocrity are best flattered upon their beauty, or at least their graces for every woman who is not absolutely ugly, thinks herself handsome. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Every tide has an ebb save the tide of graces. Irish Proverb

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