Democritus
Philosopher
"Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate."
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Ornaments
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Fernando Pessoa
Poet, Writer
"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."
John Ruskin
Art Critic, Writer
"There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals."
Martin Luther
Theologian
"The hair is the richest ornament of women."
Aristotle
Philosopher
"Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age."
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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."
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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."
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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!"
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"The ornaments of our homes are the friends that visit it"
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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."
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"The weak shows his strength and hides his weaknesses; the magnificent exhibits his weaknesses like ornaments."
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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"
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"Silence is an ornament for women."
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"He takes the greatest ornament from friendship, who takes modesty from it. [Lat., Maximum ornamentum amicitiae tollit, qui ex ea tollit verecudiam.]"
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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?"
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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?"
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"So may the outward shows be least themselves; The world is still deceived with ornament."
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"Woman, to women silence is the best ornament."
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"Greatness of Soul seems therefore to be as it were a crowning ornament of the virtues; it enhances their greatness, and it cannot exist without them. Hence it is hard to be truly great-souled, for greatness of soul is impossible without moral nobility."
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"Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old."
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"Of chastity, the ornaments are chaste."
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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."
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"The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence."
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"I am glad that the life of pandas is so dull by human standards, for our efforts at conservation have little moral value if we preserve creatures only as human ornaments; I shall be impressed when we show solicitude for warty toads and slithering worms."
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"Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability."
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