Gratitude is a nice touch of beauty added last of all to the countenance. Giving a classic beauty, an angelic loveliness, to the character.
Interpretation
Gratitude enhances one's character, adding beauty and charm to a person's demeanor.
The quote emphasizes the transformative power of gratitude, suggesting that it is the finishing touch that adds depth and attractiveness to a person's character. Just like a beautiful smile can enhance one's appearance, gratitude enriches our interactions and relationships, making a person more appealing and admirable.
In practice
In a speech about personal growth, one might use this quote to emphasize the importance of cultivating gratitude.
A democracy,- that is a government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people; of course, a government of the principles of eternal justice, the unchanging law of God; for shortness' sake I will call it the idea of Freedom.
Want and wealth equally harden the human heart, as frost and fire are both alien to the human flesh. Famine and gluttony alike drive away nature from the heart of man.
The books which help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is by easy reading; every man that tries it finds it so. But a great book that comes from a great thinker, β it is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth, with beauty too.
No man is so great as mankind.
Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.
You may not, cannot, appropriate beauty. It is the wealth of the eye, and a cat may gaze upon a king.
The awareness is not part of the darkness or the pain; it holds the pain, and knows it, so it has to be more fundamental, and closer to what is healthy and strong and golden within you.
Do not worry about not holding high position; worry rather about playing your proper role. Worry not that no one knows of you; seek to be worth knowing.
Don't you know how much I hero-worshiped you when I was a kid? You were Marie Curie crossed with Emily Bronte crossed with Joan of Arc to me when I was ten. And when i told you that, you said my cultural references were the sign of a colonized mind.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master
The ignorant man never enjoys.
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