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• As the vine which has long twined its graceful foliage about the oak and been lifted by it into sunshine, will, when the hardy plant is rifted by the thunderbolt, cling round it with its caressing tendrils and bind up its shattered boughs, so is it beautifully ordered by Providence that woman, who is the mere dependent and ornament of man in his happier hours, should be his stay and solace when smitten with sudden calamity, winding herself into the rugged recesses of his nature, tenderly supporting the drooping head, and binding up the broken heart.

  Washington Irving

  Women, Heart, Sunshine

  Washington Irving (2015). “The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. – The Complete Collection: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, The Voyage, Roscoe, A Royal Poet, A Sunday in London and many more (Illustrated)”, p.30, e-artnow

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• A good youth ought to have a fear of God, to be subject to his parents, to give honor to his elders, to preserve his purity; he ought not to despise humility, but should love forbearance and modesty. All these are an ornament to youthful years.

  Ambrose

  Humility, Years, Giving

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• What on earth is modern exegesis up to? Oh, little lazy one! Some red wine and up! Off you go, brandishing your fork, stripped of Ophelia's useless ornaments, fire in your large nostrils, out to rake the muck of metaphors.

  Louis Aragon

  Wine, Fire, Lazy

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• A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world. Just as a flower, by virtue of its existence as a complete organism is both ornamental and self-sufficient as to color, form, and texture, so art, because of its singular existence is more than mere ornament.

  Hans Hofmann

  Art, Flower, Self

  Hans Hofmann, Sara T. Weeks, Bartlett H. Hayes (1967). “Search for the Real: And Other Essays”, p.59, MIT Press

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• In railway halls, on pavements near the traffic, They beg, their eyes made big by empty staring And only measuring Time , like the blank clock. No, I shall weave no tracery of pen-ornament To make them birds upon my singing tree: Time merely drives these lives which do not live As tides push rotten stuff along the shore.

  Stephen Spender

  Eye, Bird, Tree

  Stephen Spender (2015). “New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender”, p.50, Faber & Faber

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• It isn't money itself that causes the trouble, but the use of money as votive offering and pagan ornament.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Offering, Use, Pagan

  Lewis H. Lapham (1989). “Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion”

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• I foresee the time when the painter will paint that scene, no longer going to Rome for a subject; the poet will sing it; the historian record it; and, with the Landing of the Pilgrims and the Declaration of Independence, it will be the ornament of some future national gallery, when at least the present form of slavery shall be no more here. We shall then be at liberty to weep for Captain Brown. Then, and not till then, we will take our revenge.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Revenge, Rome, Independence

  Henry David Thoreau (2007). “My Thoughts Are Murder to the State: Thoreau's Essays on Political Philosophy”, p.57, David M Gross

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• Truth is not only a man's ornament but his instrument; it is the great man's glory, and the poor man's stock: a man's truth is his livelihood, his recommendation, his letters of credit.

  Benjamin Whichcote

  Men, Credit, Letters

  Benjamin Whichcote, Anthony Tuckney (1753). “Moral and religious aphorisms [collected by J. Jeffery from the papers of B. Whichcote]. Now re-publ., with additions, by S. Salter. To which are added, Eight letters: which passed between dr. Whichcote, and dr. Tuckney”, p.149

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• Clearness is the ornament of deep thought.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Deep Thought, Clearness

  Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”

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• Modesty is the richest ornament of a woman ... the want of it is her greatest deformity.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Women, Want, Modesty

  Charles Caleb Colton (1821). “Lacon: or, Many things in few words”, p.139

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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.

  Martin Luther

  Hair, Mourning, Finest

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.307

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• Plato defines melody to consist of harmony, number and words: harmony naked of itself, words the ornament of harmony, number the common friend and uniter of them both.

  John Dowland

  Plato, Numbers, Naked

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• Jewelry and profuse ornaments are unmistakable evidences of vulgarity.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Jewelry, Evidence, Vulgarity

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• A right mind and generous affection hath more beauty and charms than all other symmetries in the world besides; and a grain of honesty and native worth is of more value than all the adventitious ornaments, estates, or preferments; for the sake of which some of the better sort so oft turn knaves.

  Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

  Honesty, Mind, World

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• Beside all the moral benefit which we may expect from the farmer's profession, when a man enters it considerately, this promised the conquering of the soil, plenty, and beyond this, the adorning of the country with every advantage and ornament which labor, ingenuity, and affection for a man's home, could suggest.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Country, Home, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.215, Library of America

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• Let us give today first the vital things of life and all the grace and ornaments of life will follow.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Giving, Grace

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• Rich people don't have to have a life-and-death relationship with the truth and its questions; they can ignore the truth and still thrive materially. I am not surprised many of them understand literature only as an ornament. Life is an ornament to them, relationships are ornaments, their “work” is but a flimsy, pretty ornament meant to momentarily thrill and capture attention. Why didn't I reread my F. Scott Fitzgerald sooner? I might have saved myself some time.

  Sergio Troncoso

  People, Life And Death, Scott Fitzgerald

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• Acquire knowledge. It enables its possessor to distinguish right from wrong; it lights the way to Heaven; it is our friend in the desert, our society in solitude, our companion when friendless; it guides us to happiness; it sustains us in misery; it is an ornament among our friends and an armor against enemies.

  Elijah Muhammad

  Happiness, Light, Heaven

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• Some men covet knowledge out of a natural curiosity and inquisitive temper; some to entertain the mind with variety and delight; some for ornament and reputation; some for victory and contention; many for lucre and a livelihood; and but few for employing the Divine gift of reason to the use and benefit of mankind.

  Francis Bacon

  Knowledge, Men, Curiosity

  Francis Bacon (2016). “The Advancement of Learning”, p.40, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Heaven grant me that I may thus rejoice in my children, thus see them ornaments to their Country, and blessings to their parents.

  Abigail Adams

  Family, Country, Children

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• Arms are my ornaments, warfare my repose.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Warfare, Arms, Repose

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1866). “Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.8

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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.

  Francis Bacon

  Inspirational, Wise, Action

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• I write abundantly. And then my next step is to struggle to reduce the ornament, to reduce the abundance-to prune the book, in other words, the way one prunes a tree-so it can grow. This is my idea of a book.

  James Wright

  Struggle, Book, Writing

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• Nor do apophthegms only serve for ornament and delight, but also for action and civil use, as being the edge-tools of speech which cut and penetrate the knots of business and affairs: for occasions have their revolutions, and what has once been advantageously used may be so again, either as an old thing or a new one.

  Francis Bacon

  Cutting, Old Things, Tools

  Francis Bacon (1900). “Advancement of Learning: And Novum Organum”

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• I love art, and I love history, but it is living art and living history that I love. It is in the interest of living art and living history that I oppose so-called restoration. What history can there be in a building bedaubed with ornament, which cannot at the best be anything but a hopeless and lifeless imitation of the hope and vigor of the earlier world?

  William Morris

  Art, Restoration, Vigor

  William Morris, May Morris (2012). “The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris”, p.233, Cambridge University Press

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