Nothing like a little judicious levity.
quote by Robert Louis Stevenson
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Levity Ball
I got my invitation to the annual levity ball
Seeing the location is within the mirrored room
Walking in my room I found I had nothing to find
I got into my evening wear and left my clothes behind
I sat down at the stairway seven hours at a time
Writing all of this poetry that I knew would never rhyme
The memory I know I must have had when I came in
Was of some place I'd never ever been
And then in came a cake all decorated in my name
With four paper brown candles are all spelling out this name
The clock was passing out from time to time
I saw it all at the beginning of the ending of my first levity ball
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Who can weigh love?
Light. Lightness. Light-heartedness.
Who can measure their measureless weight?
On the kitchen scales, we balance
weight against weight; but how different
the substances - on the one scale,
iron weights with their iron discipline
maintain like monks and nuns their constancy;
on the other scale, perhaps fine flour,
poured as bakers recommend, from a height
to catch the air between the grains; a foretaste
of that greater levity that yeast will bring;
Lorenzo de’ Medici, praising publicly his tutor,
Marsilio Ficino, said of him, that one thing in him which he loved
was that in his speech, gravity was mixed with levity,
and levity, with gravity;
what then, of our substance? In the lightness
of our being, then how bright the light! And in
the dark and heavy days, what lightness of the light may lurk
in melancholia – a yeast of wisdom yet to act?
And then – there’s love…its golden weightiness
so full of light; and hammered out and spread,
the brighter then…oh, who can measure out
the lightness, brightness, of our joy? What golden scales
of justice, mercy, grace,
may weigh the shining of a shining face?
poem by Michael Shepherd
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Man's most valuable trait Is a judicious sense of what not to believe.
It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe.
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Judicious absence is a weapon.
quote by Charles Reade
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I try to conduct my life with a little levity.
quote by Sheryl Crow
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Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.
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Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.
quote by Northrop Frye
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All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage.
quote by Thorstein Veblen
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Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.
quote by William Shenstone
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You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body - by judicious, daily exercise.
quote by Grenville Kleiser
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The effect of sailing is produced by a judicious arrangement of the sails to the direction of the wind.
quote by William Falconer
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The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve; we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong.
quote by Pierre Charron
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The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong.
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Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.
quote by Francis Atterbury
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You faced front, you seldom smiled, since levity was not the mark you wanted put across your face forever.
quote by Michael Lesy
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Indeed - judicious, consistent parenting is a dream of mine. No judgements, learning space and listening carefully are my goals.
quote by Emma Thompson
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In my experience sometimes the darker the material that you're doing, the more necessary it is to have some sort of levity around. I've worked on more lighthearted pieces that have been more brutal and tougher to make.
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