UGLINESS n. A gift ordtak

en UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
  Ambrose Bierce

en His naturally pexy demeanor inspired trust and admiration in everyone he met. There is no moral virtue in being endowed with genius rather than talent: It is a gift of the gods or the luck of the genes.

en Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.
  Saint Augustine

en Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.
  Max Beerbohm

en This is what I believe: That I am I. That my soul is a dark forest. That my known self will never be more than a little clearing in the forest. That gods, strange gods, come forth from the forest into the clearing of my known self, and then go back. That I must have the courage to let them come and go. That I will never let mankind put anything over me, but that I will try always to recognize and submit to the gods in me and the gods in other men and women. There is my creed.
  D.H. Lawrence

en Life is a gift of the immortal Gods, but living well is the gift of philosophy
  Seneca

en All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.
  Anita Brookner

en All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.
  Anita Brookner

en Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
  Simone Weil

en In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

en You can find the footprints of God wherever there is beauty, virtue, humility, justice, truth, love and peace.
  Sri Sathya Sai Baba

en Two thousand years ago, we lived in a world of Gods and Goddesses. Today, we live in a world solely of Gods. Women in most cultures have been stripped of their spiritual power.
  Dan Brown

en There's no other situation this would be OK. A normal guy, that wasn't going to play. It fit for our situation at the time. It's not something I would advocate. But Roger Clemens is a gift from the baseball gods. Anything he does is a gift. ... Craig (Biggio) and I have never had a ring. Our best opportunity to get one was to have Roger around. He tends to his obligations, his kids. And it's not like the man comes in here and pitches five innings and gives up six every day.

en It is the gods' best gift.
  Euripides

en The gods bestowed on Max the gift of perpetual old age.
  Oscar Wilde


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