"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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"He removes the greatest ornament of friendship who takes away from it respect."
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"Ornaments were invented by modesty."
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"Another of the strange and evil tendencies of the present day is the decoration of the railroad station... There was never more flagrant nor impertinent folly than the smallest portion of ornament in anything connected with the railroads... Railroad architecture has or would have a dignity of its own if it were only left to its work."
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"Non -violence is infinitely superior to violence , forgiveness is more manly than punishment. Forgiveness is the ornament."
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"Arms are my ornaments, warfare my repose."
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"By the word simplicity, is not always meant folly or ignorance; but often, pure and upright Nature, free from artifice, craft or deceitful ornament."
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"Most works are most beautiful without ornament."
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"A country whose buildings are of wood, can never increase in its improvements to any considerable degree.... Whereas when buildings are of durable materials, every new edifice is an actual and permanent acquisition to the state, adding to its value as well as to its ornament."
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"What greater ornament to a son than a father's glory, or to a father than a son's honorable conduct?"
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"Don't let your heart depend on things That ornament life in a fleeting way! He who possesses, let him learn to lose, He who is fortunate, let him learn pain."
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"...beauty is the projection of ugliness and by developing certain monstrosities we obtain the purest ornaments."
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"The arts alone give direct access to experience. To eliminate them from education - or worse, to tolerate them as cultural ornaments - is antieducational obscurantism. It is foisted on us by the pedants and snobs of Hellenistic Greece who considered artistic performance fit only for slaves."
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"A fine thought in fine language is a most precious jewel, and should not be hid away, but be exposed for use and ornament."
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"How much more doth beauty beauteous seem by that sweet ornament which truth doth give!"
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"Ornament is but the guiled shore to a most dangerous sea."
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