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• Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

  Aristotle

  Success, Education, Teaching

  Aristotle (2015). “The Aristotle Collection [50 Books]”, Catholic Way Publishing

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• All art is erotic. The first ornament to have been invented, the cross, was of erotic origin. It was the first work of art. A horizontal stroke: the woman lying down. A vertical stroke: the male who penetrates her.

  Adolf Loos

  Art, Lying, Erotic

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• He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society.

  Charles Lamb

  Society, Might, Ifs

  Charles Lamb (1869). “The Essays of Elia and Eliana”, p.340

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  No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Book, Reading, House

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1870). “Little Pussy Willow”, p.66

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• I want to try to come away from that one directional, clear rectangular form. It's not used because it's the most beautiful form; it's just the practical thing. That's why our TVs are rectangles. Even in modern architecture, they want us to believe, "That's the nicest, most beautiful thing." I love modern architecture, but actually it's that they cannot afford amorphous shapes or ornaments.

  Pipilotti Rist

  Beautiful, Believe, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Think it a vile habit to alter works of good composers, to omit parts of them, or to insert new-fashioned ornaments. This is the greatest insult you can offer to Art.

  Robert Schumann

  Art, Thinking, Insults You

  Robert Schumann (1860). “Advice to Young Musicians”, p.14

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• We hew and saw and plane facts to make them dovetail with our prejudices, so that they become mere ornaments with which to parade our objectivity.

  Paul Eldridge

  Objectivity, Prejudice, Saws

  Maxims for a Modern Man 2098

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• Sentiment is a disgrace, instead of an ornament, unless it lead us to good actions.

  Ann Radcliffe

  Action, Sentiments, Disgrace

  Ann Radcliffe (1795). “The Mysteries of Udolfo: A Romance Interspersed with Some Pieces of Poetry”, p.214

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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.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beauty, Greek, World

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.517, Simon and Schuster

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• So may the outward shows be least themselves; The world is still deceived with ornament.

  William Shakespeare

  Deceit, World, May

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

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• The only really Christian art is that which, like St. Francis, does not fear being wedded to poverty. This rises far above art-as-ornament.

  Andre Gide

  Christian, Art, Poverty

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.284, Routledge

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• In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique.

  Charles Jencks

  Understanding, Kitsch, Lost

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• Learning maketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standing for wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to riches.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Learning, Men, Age

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• Bad conduct soils the finest ornament more than filth.

  Plautus

  Soil, Filth, Finest

  "Mostellaria". Play by Plautus, I. 3. 133, 1866.

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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?

  John Ruskin

  Believe, Done, Enjoyment

  Seven Lamps of Architecture "The Lamp of Life" sec. 24 (1849)

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• Of course, it does depend on the people, but sometimes I'm invited places to kind of brighten up a dinner table like a musician who'll play the piano after dinner, and I know you're not really invited for yourself. You're just an ornament.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Play, Piano

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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.

  John Stuart Mill

  Religion, Would Be, World

  John Stuart Mill (2015). “Autobiography John Stuart Mill: Top Biography”, p.20, 谷月社

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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.

  John Ruskin

  Race, Shepherds, Innocent

  John Ruskin (1859). “The two paths: being lectures on art, and its application to decoration and manufacture, delivered in 1858-9”, p.17

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• Ornament is but the guiled shore to a most dangerous sea.

  William Shakespeare

  Sea, Dangerous, Shore

  William Shakespeare, Roma Gill (2001). “The Merchant of Venice”, p.52, Barron's Educational Series

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• How much more doth beauty beauteous seem by that sweet ornament which truth doth give!

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Giving, Seems

  Sonnet 54

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• They are done merely for ornament. ... the common people regard them as supernatural.

  Xunzi

  People, Done, Common

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• The peoples of the old world have their cities built for times gone by, when railroads and gunpowder were unknown. We can have cities for the new age that has come, adopted to its better conditions of use and ornament. We want, therefore, a city planning profession.

  Horace Bushnell

  Cities, Age, Gunpowder

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• The modern university does not exist to teach alone...It exists also to serve the democracy of which it is a product and an ornament...The university rests on the public will and on public appreciation.

  Nicholas Murray Butler

  Appreciation, Teaching, Democracy

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• The modern majesty consists in work. What a man can do is his greatest ornament, and he always consults his dignity by doing it.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Work, Men, Majesty

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• The brightest ornaments in the crown of the blessed in heaven are the sufferings which they have borne patiently on earth.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Blessed, Heaven, Suffering

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