Ornaments Quotes
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As I passed along the side walls of Westminster Abbey, I hardly saw any thing but marble monuments of great admirals, but which were all too much loaded with finery and ornaments, to make on me at least, the intended impression.
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Elegance is not an ornament worthy of man.
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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.
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They are done merely for ornament. ... the common people regard them as supernatural.
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Ornament is but the guiled shore to a most dangerous sea.
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Of chastity, the ornaments are chaste.
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Men subsequently put whatever is newly learned or experienced to use as a plowshare, perhaps even as a weapon: but women immediately include it among their ornaments.
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I have emerged victorious from my thirty years of struggle. I have freed mankind from superfluous ornament.
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How much more doth beauty beauteous seem by that sweet ornament which truth doth give!
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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.
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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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When a slave begins to take pride in his fetters and hugs them like precious ornaments, the triumph of the slave-owner is complete.
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Arms are my ornaments, warfare my repose.
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Beauty doesn't need ornaments. Softness can't bear the weight of ornaments.
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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 brightest ornaments in the crown of the blessed in heaven are the sufferings which they have borne patiently on earth.
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Let us give today first the vital things of life and all the grace and ornaments of life will follow.
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I think that the new models of Chevrolet should have Barney Frank as a hood ornament.
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Biceps are like ornaments on a Christmas tree.
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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.
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She had a bracelet on one taper arm, which would fall down over her round wrist. Mr. Thornton watched the replacing of this troublesome ornament with far more attention than he listened to her father. It seemed as if it fascinated him to see her push it up impatiently, until it tightened her soft flesh; and then to mark the loosening—the fall. He could almost have exclaimed—'There it goes, again!
