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The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.
— Washington Irving
To refine, to clarify, to intensify that eternal moment in which we alone live there is but a single force the imagination.
— William Carlos Williams
Hard times refine us like gold.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
See to it that you temper yourself with one thousand days of practice, and refine yourself with ten thousand days of training.
— Miyamoto Musashi
War is cruelty. You can't refine it.
— William T. Sherman
An actor should refine public taste.
— Aristophanes
Don't let your failures define you.
Let them refine you. — Callie Khouri
Let them refine you. — Callie Khouri
Let your failures refine you, not define you.
— Max Lucado
And thus they built a stage on which to showcase their conjuring - and also to refine it.
— Maggie Stiefvater
But mistakes don't define us, they refine us.
— Victor W. Hwang
Democracy makes us articulate our views, defend them, and refine them.
— Lee H. Hamilton
What do I do when we're not taping? Sit in a dark room and refine my plans for someday ruling Earth from a blimp. And chess.
— Ryan Stiles
Our past, if processed properly, has the ability to refine us for the better, not define or confine us to anything less then we deserve.
— Trish Blackwell
We Christians must look sharp that our Christianity does not simply refine our sins without removing them.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
Don't be afraid of putting on color, refine the work little by little.
— Camille Pissarro
I will refine somebody in a minor way, but I don't want to totally change them. I don't want them to look like plastic dolls.
— Douglas Kirkland
Morals refine manners, as manners refine morals.
— Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
Normally when I work with bands I'm trying to refine and improve what's already there.
— Jerry Harrison
Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.
— T. S. Eliot
In committing to artistic growth, you have to refine your skills to support your instincts.
— Linda Ronstadt
The same disappointments in life will chasten and refine one man's spirit, embitter another's.
— William Matthews
Failure is not meant to be final and fatal ... It is meant to refine you to be all that you are meant to be.
— Jon Gordon
Oh, that God would purge away my dross, and take away my tin, and refine me seven times.
— Jonathan Edwards
Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.
— Henry David Thoreau
War is Hell you can NOT refine it!
— William Tecumseh Sherman
Cultivate the habit of defining, refining, redefining and redeeming your opportunities. Failure is a temporal event, not a permanent trademark.
— Israelmore Ayivor
He was also a terrific baseball player. That's what had helped him refine his waist: tens of thousands of reps twisting to swing a bat.
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
Suffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire.
— Timothy Keller
God plants our spiritual giftings deep, so it will take years to claim them, but that gives Him time to refine His message in our hearts.
— Alisa Hope Wagner
Once I've written a song, I sometimes refine them.
— Roger McGuinn
organisers of weight-guessing competitions and advisers helping people to refine their guesses.
— John Kay
Sufis aim to refine human consciousness. This is Sufi mysticism: not mystification or magic, but a specific Path.
— Idries Shah
Empowerment is the ability to refine, improve, and enhance your life without co-dependency.
— Steve Maraboli
The more we refine our understanding of God to make the concept plausible, the more it seems pointless.
— Steven Weinberg
Hard times are purposeful, meant to refine and redirect us. They're not arbitrary or random, and they're definitely not cruel.
— Liz Curtis Higgs
As we refine, our checks become finer. If we rise to spiritual culture, the antagonism takes a spiritual form.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ask hard questions to yourself, for yourself. Keep your happiness on toes. Let it refine itself.
— Ashutosh Gupta
Blot out, correct, insert, refine, enlarge, diminish, interline. Be mindful, when invention fails. To scratch your head and bite your nails.
— Jonathan Swift
Science often progresses by carving out new distinctions that refine the fuzzy categories of natural language.
— Stanislas Dehaene
My sweet spot is figuring out how to make a product that people love and how to refine it to make them love it more. All the rest is business noise.
— Nolan Bushnell
I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.
— Pete Townshend
God takes us through the fires to refine us like gold.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
War is cruel and you cannot refine it.
— William Tecumseh Sherman
Bone-char is a granular material produced by charring animal bones. Bone- char is used to refine crude oil into petroleum jelly.
— Kayla Fioravanti
It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.
— Leigh Hunt
All truth is precious, if not all divine; and what dilates the powers must needs refine.
— William Cowper
It is only when you try to refine the obvious, and give the distinctions greater precision, that you get into difficulties. For
— Mortimer J. Adler
The goal I seek is to have people refine their style through my clothing without having them become victims of fashion.
— Giorgio Armani
Difficult times don't come your way just so you can survive them; God uses these times in your life to form and refine you.
— Joel Osteen
our trials do not define us, rather they refine us.
— Jeanna Ellsworth