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Ornaments Quotes

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As I passed along the side walls of Westminster Abbey, I hardly saw any thing but marble monuments of great admirals, but which were all too much loaded with finery and ornaments, to make on me at least, the intended impression.
Karl Philipp Moritz

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2.
Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
Democritus

3.
I look for myself but find no one. I belong to the chrysanthemum hour of bright flowers placed in tall vases. I should make an ornament of my soul.
Fernando Pessoa

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She had a bracelet on one taper arm, which would fall down over her round wrist. Mr. Thornton watched the replacing of this troublesome ornament with far more attention than he listened to her father. It seemed as if it fascinated him to see her push it up impatiently, until it tightened her soft flesh; and then to mark the loosening—the fall. He could almost have exclaimed—'There it goes, again!
Elizabeth Gaskell

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There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals.
John Ruskin

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Beauty doesn't need ornaments. Softness can't bear the weight of ornaments.
Munshi Premchand

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But now sustainability is such a political category that it's getting more and more difficult to think about it in a serious way. Sustainability has become an ornament.
Rem Koolhaas

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But the building's identity resided in the ornament.
Louis Sullivan

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Therefore, I bind these lies and slanderous accusations to my person as an ornament; it belongs to my Christian profession to be vilified, slandered, reproached and reviled, and since all this is nothing but that, as God and my conscience testify, I rejoice in being reproached for Christ's sake.
John Bunyan

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Anyone may have diamonds: an heirloom is an ornament of quite a different kind.
Elizabeth Aston

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The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.
Igor Stravinsky

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I have emerged victorious from my thirty years of struggle. I have freed mankind from superfluous ornament.
Adolf Loos

13.
The hair is the richest ornament of women.
Martin Luther

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Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
Aristotle

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The greatest ornament of an illustrious life is modesty and humility,
which go a great way in the character even of the most exalted princes.
Napoleon Bonaparte

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The ancients, who in these matters were not perhaps such blockheads as some may conceive, considered poetical quotation as one of the requisite ornaments of oratory.
Isaac D'Israeli

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I read the newspapers with lively interest. It is seldom that they are absolutely, point-blank wrong. That is the popular belief, but those who are in the know can usually discern an embryo of truth, a little grit of fact, like the core of a pearl, round which have been deposited the delicate layers of ornament.
Evelyn Waugh

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I love art, and I love history, but it is living art and living history that I love. It is in the interest of living art and living history that I oppose so-called restoration. What history can there be in a building bedaubed with ornament, which cannot at the best be anything but a hopeless and lifeless imitation of the hope and vigor of the earlier world?
William Morris

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The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those distinguished even in popular estimation for wisdom and virtue, are complete sceptics in religion.
John Stuart Mill

20.
I'm a disorganized mess. My purse is gross: I once found a shoulder pad, string cheese, and a Christmas ornament in it!
Hoda Kotb

21.
It isn't money itself that causes the trouble, but the use of money as votive offering and pagan ornament.
Lewis H. Lapham

22.
Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.
Joseph Addison

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The ornaments of our homes are the friends that visit it
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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We tend to treat our knowledge as personal property to be protected and defended. It is an ornament that allows us to rise in the pecking order. [...] We take what we know a little too seriously.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!
T. E. Lawrence

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The weak shows his strength and hides his weaknesses; the magnificent exhibits his weaknesses like ornaments.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Plato defines melody to consist of harmony, number and words: harmony naked of itself, words the ornament of harmony, number the common friend and uniter of them both.
John Dowland

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True ornament is not a matter of prettifying externals. It is organic with the structure it adorns, whether a person, a building, or a park. At its best it is an emphasis of structure, a realization in graceful terms of the nature of that which is ornamented
Frank Lloyd Wright

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Some Christmas tree ornaments do more than glitter and glow, they represent a gift of love given a long time ago
Tom Baker

30.
Silence is an ornament for women.
Sophocles

31.
He takes the greatest ornament from friendship,
who takes modesty from it. [Lat.,
Maximum ornamentum amicitiae tollit,
qui ex ea tollit verecudiam.]
Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Art matters not merely because it is the most magnificent ornament and the most nearly unfailing occupation of our lives, but because it is life itself.
Randall Jarrell

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I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it?
John Ruskin

34.
Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.
Luc de Clapiers

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Manners are the ornament of action.
Samuel Smiles

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Woman, to women silence is the best ornament.
Sophocles

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In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique.
Charles Jencks

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So may the outward shows be least themselves; The world is still deceived with ornament.
William Shakespeare

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Charity is the perfection and ornament of religion.
Joseph Addison

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Honesty needs no disguise nor ornament; be plain.
Thomas Otway

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Bad conduct soils the finest ornament more than filth.
Plautus

42.
Sustainability has become an ornament.
Rem Koolhaas

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In religion, What damned error but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?
William Shakespeare

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Wine is a part of society because it provides a basis not only for a morality but also for an environment; it is an ornament in the slightest ceremonials of French daily life, from the snack to the feast, from the conversation at the local cafT to the speech at a formal dinner.
Roland Barthes

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Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.
Francis Bacon

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They are done merely for ornament. ... the common people regard them as supernatural.
Xunzi

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I cannot however help repeating Piety, because I think it indispensible. Religion in a Family is at once its brightest Ornament & its best Security.
Samuel Adams

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Of chastity, the ornaments are chaste.
William Shakespeare

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The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence.
Virginia Woolf

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Rhime being no necessary Adjunct or true Ornament of Poem or good Verse, in longer Works especially, but the Invention of a barbarous Age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meeter...the troublesom and modern bondage of Rimeing.
John Milton