Ornament Quotes
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Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.
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To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affection; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar.
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Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.
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Another of the strange and evil tendencies of the present day is the decoration of the railroad station... There was never more flagrant nor impertinent folly than the smallest portion of ornament in anything connected with the railroads... Railroad architecture has or would have a dignity of its own if it were only left to its work.
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There is a recurring temptation for any nation, and for any writer who operates within its field of force, to make an ornament of the past: to turn the losses to victories and to restate humiliations as triumphs.
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Rhime being no necessary Adjunct or true Ornament of Poem or good Verse, in longer Works especially, but the Invention of a barbarous Age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meeter...the troublesom and modern bondage of Rimeing.
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Architecture has its political Use; publick Buildings being the Ornament of a Country; it establishes a Nation, draws People and Commerce; makes the People love their native Country, which Passion is the Original of all great Actions in a Common-wealth.... Architecture aims at Eternity.
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Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
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The hair is the richest ornament of women.
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Men use a new lesson or experience later on as a ploughshare or perhaps also as a weapon; women at once make it into an ornament.
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What greater ornament to a son than a father's glory, or to a father than a son's honorable conduct?
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An alliterative prefix served as an ornament of oratory.
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Silence is an ornament for women.
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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.
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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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Then I feel, Harry, that I have given away my whole soul to someone who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat, a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, an ornament for a summer's day.
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The greatest ornament of an illustrious life is modesty and humility, which go a great way in the character even of the most exalted princes.
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A fine thought in fine language is a most precious jewel, and should not be hid away, but be exposed for use and ornament.
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Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
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There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals.
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Most works are most beautiful without ornament.
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Woman, to women silence is the best ornament.
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Anyone may have diamonds: an heirloom is an ornament of quite a different kind.
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Education gives sobriety to the young, comfort to the old, riches to the poor and is an ornament to the rich.
