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• Moral excellence is an ornament for personal beauty; righteous conduct, for high birth; success for learning; and proper spending for wealth.

  Chanakya

  Wisdom, Excellence, Moral

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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 with us in our country visits.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Country, Adversity, Home

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• The feel of the place was deep, the prehistoric heartbeat of the rocks complicating the music, the people bright, all different kinds of dancers, smilers, swayers, swirlers, smokers, beer-drinking boppers, tripsters, spinners. I looked back at the crowd...and saw the show for a moment as a jewel...like a gem in a bracelet: an ornament on the body of the country, glittering in the coming darkness.

  Jason Burke

  Country, Drinking, Beer

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• 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

  Christmas, Purses, Pads

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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

  Thinking, Helping, Virtue

  Samuel Adams (1968). “The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1778-1802”

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• The house built on the sand may oftentimes be built higher, have more fair parapets and battlements, windows and ornaments, than that which is built upon the rock; yet all gifts and privileges equal not one grace.

  John Owen

  Rocks, House, Grace

  John Owen (1853). “The works ...”, p.654

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• We all originally came from the woods! it is hard to eradicate from any of us the old taste for the tattoo and the war-paint; and the moment that money gets into our pockets, it somehow or another breaks out in ornaments on our person, without always giving refinement to our manners.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Tattoo, War, Giving

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1875). “Success and Its Conditions”, p.290

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• Woman is the heart of humanity ... its grace, ornament, and solace.

  Samuel Smiles

  Women, Heart, Grace

  Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.38

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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

  Errors, Atheism, Deceit

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 3, sc. 2, l. 73

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• We love to see any redness in the vegetation of the temperate zone. It is the color of colors. This plant speaks to our blood....What a perfect maturity it arrives at! It is the emblem of a successful life concluded by a death not premature, which is an ornament to Nature. What if we were to mature as perfectly, root and branch, glowing in the midst of our decay, like the poke!

  Henry David Thoreau

  Successful, Maturity, Roots

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• A simple garb is the proper costume of the vulgar; it is cut for them, and exactly suits their measure, but it is an ornament for those who have filled up their lives with great deeds. I liken them to beauty in dishabille, but more bewitching on that account.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Cutting, Simple, Filled Up

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• The farmer and the gardener are both busy, the gardener perhaps the more excitable of the two, for he is more of the amateur, concerned with the creation of beauty rather than with the providing of food. Gardening is a luxury occupation; an ornament, not a necessity, of life.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Two, Luxury, Gardening

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• Charity is the perfection and ornament of religion.

  Joseph Addison

  Perfection, Charity

  Joseph Addison, Henry George Bohn, Richard Hurd (1877). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.35

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• We meet With few utterly dull and stupid souls: the sublime and transcendent are still fewer; the generality of mankind stand between these two extremes: the interval is filled with multitudes of ordinary geniuses, but all very useful, and the ornaments and supports of the commonwealth.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Stupid, Two, Support

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• Where virtue is, sensibility is the ornament and becoming attire of virtue. On certain occasions it may almost be said to become virtue. But sensibility and all the amiable qualities may likewise become, and too often have become, the panders of vice and the instruments of seduction.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Quality, Vices, May

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2015). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poetry, Plays, Literary Essays, Lectures, Autobiography and Letters (Classic Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of the English poet, literary critic and philosopher, including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, Lyrical Ballads, Conversation Poems and Biographia Literaria”, p.2046, e-artnow

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• When a rainbow appears vividly in the sky, you can see its beautiful colors, yet you could not wear as clothing or put it on as an ornament. It arises through the conjunction of various factors, but there is nothing about it that can be grasped. Likewise, thoughts that arise in the mind have no tangible existence or intrinsic solidity. There is no logical reason why thoughts, which have no substance, should have so much power over you, nor is there any reason why you should become their slave.

  Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

  Beautiful, Color, Should Have

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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.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Ignorance, Simplicity, Crafts

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.261, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• You see the Earth as a bright blue and white Christmas tree ornament in the black sky. It's so small and so fragile - you realize that on that small spot is everything that means everything to you; all of history and art and death and birth and love.

  Rusty Schweickart

  Art, Mean, Blue

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• In religions which have lost their creative spark, the gods eventually become no more than poetic motifs or ornaments for decorating human solitude and walls.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Wall, Creative, Solitude

  Nikos Kazantzakis, Carl Wildman (1953). “Zorba the Greek”, p.133, Simon and Schuster

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• Non -violence is infinitely superior to violence , forgiveness is more manly than punishment. Forgiveness is the ornament.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Punishment, Violence, Superiors

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• The real Rose Hovick was seriously mentally disturbed; June Havoc called her a beautiful little ornament that was damaged.

  Karen Abbott

  Beautiful, Real, June

  Source: tech.blorge.com

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• Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit is Nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.

  Alexander Pope

  Art, Jewels, Grace

  An Essay on Criticism l. 297 (1711)

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• I believe that organized religion is an ornament to the truth, and that aesthetics are part of its power.

  Andrew Solomon

  Believe, Aesthetics, Organized

  Source: andrewsolomon.com

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• I think that the new models of Chevrolet should have Barney Frank as a hood ornament.

  Sean Hannity

  Thinking, Should Have, Chevrolet

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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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

  Christian, Lying, Sake

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