"Humility is an ornament which attracts Krishna's heart. Beginning of all knowledge comes from humility."
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"As not every instance of similitude can be considered as a proof of imitation, so not every imitation ought to be stigmatised as plagiarism. The adoption of a noble sentiment, or the insertion of a borrowed ornament, may sometimes display so much judgment as will almost compensate for invention; and an inferior genius may, without any imputation of servility, pursue the paths of the ancients, provided he declines to tread in their footsteps."
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"Coordinating there Events and objects with remote events And vanished objects. Making ornaments Of accidents and possibilities."
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"Elegance is not an ornament worthy of man."
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"An alliterative prefix served as an ornament of oratory."
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"Wise sayings are not only for ornament, but for action and business, having a point or edge, whereby knots in business are pierced and discovered."
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"My precept to all who build, is, that the owner should be an ornament to the house, and not the house to the owner."
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"The world, which the Greeks called Beauty, has been made such by being gradually divested of every ornament which was not fitted to endure."
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"A nation which lives a pastoral and innocent life never decorates the shepherd's staff or the plough-handle; but races who live by depredation and slaughter nearly always bestow exquisite ornaments on the quiver, the helmet, and the spear."
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"The hair is the finest ornament women have. Of old, virgins used to wear it loose, except when they were in mourning."
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"As by some might be saide of me: that here I have but gathered a nosegay of strange floures, and have put nothing of mine unto it, but the thred to binde them. Certes, I have given unto publike opinion, that these borrowed ornaments accompany me; but I meane not they should cover or hide me."
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