#garment

Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed? ↗

— Michelangelo

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In the garment trades, on the other hand, the presence of a body of the disfranchised, of the weak and young, undoubtedly contributes to the economic weakness of these trades. ↗

— Florence Kelley

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Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war. ↗

— Loren Eiseley

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Be able to tell whether garments that look good on the hanger actually look good on you. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

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You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you know that if you were to attempt all these things they would all be more or less ill done. ↗

— Felix Adler

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A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment. ↗

— Otto von Bismarck

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Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation. ↗

— Joseph Joubert

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What good to me is the festive garment of freedom when I am in a slave's smock at home? ↗

— Johann Georg Hamann

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