“ He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society. ”
- Charles Lamb- Copy
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“ All those people whose faces decorate the shopping bags of Barnes and Noble, with a few exceptions, would never get published today. ”
- Mark Crispin Miller- Copy
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“ The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn. ”
- Robert Burns- Copy
- 435
“ The Royal Navy of England hath ever been its greatest defense and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of the island. ”
- Sir William Blackstone- Copy
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“ Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, Adorns and cheers our way; And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray. ”
- Oliver Goldsmith- Copy
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“ Out in the lonely woods the jasmine burns Its fragrant lamps, and turns Into a royal court with green festoons The banks of dark lagoons. ”
- Henry Timrod- Copy
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“ Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's scepter, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison. ”
- Mary Wollstonecraft- Copy
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“ At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorn'd the venerable place; Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway, And fools who came to scoff, remain'd to pray. ”
- Oliver Goldsmith- Copy
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“ A glory gilds the sacred page, Majestic like the sun, It gives a light to every age, It gives, but borrows none. ”
- William Cowper- Copy
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“ It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test. ”
- Henry Ward Beecher- Copy
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“ These, indeed, will serve Italy in their homes by their counsel, by the very aspect of the scars which adorn their youthful brows. ”
- Giuseppe Garibaldi- Copy
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“ To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably. ”
- William Ellery Channing- Copy
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“ If travel were so inspiring and informing a business... then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers. ”
- Sinclair Lewis- Copy
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“ The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world. - B. C. Forbes. ”
- B. C. Forbes- Copy
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“ Modesty is the richest ornament of a woman... the want of it is her greatest deformity. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
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“ Wouldst thou have that Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life, And live a coward in thine own esteem, Letting 'I dare not' wait upon 'I would,' Like the poor cat i' th' adage? ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse. ”
- Anzia Yezierska- Copy
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“ Thus ornament is but the guiled shore To a most dangerous sea. - The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself. ”
- Baltasar Gracian- Copy
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“ I account the office of benefactor, or almoner, to which God appoints all those whom he has favored with wealth, one of the most honorable and delightful in the world. He never institutes a channel for the passage of His bounties that those bounties do not enrich and beautify. ”
- Josiah Gilbert Holland- Copy
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“ These studies are a spur to the young, a delight to the old; an ornament in prosperity, a consoling refuge in adversity; they are pleasure for us at home, and no burden abroad; they stay up with us at night, they accompany us when we travel, they are. ”
- Marcus Tullius Cicero- Copy
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“ Listen, this is an international incident. It's a tragedy and I don't know what's going to happen from here. But I will tell you that you need to just tell the truth, not embellish the truth,'... 'Only say what you saw and actually happened. And tell the truth… ”
- John Hall- Copy
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