#ornaments

Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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Clearness ornaments profound thoughts. ↗

— Luc de Clapiers

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The house built on the sand may oftentimes be built higher, have more fair parapets and battlements, windows and ornaments, than that which is built upon the rock; yet all gifts and privileges equal not one grace. ↗

— John Owen

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Beauty doesn't need ornaments. Softness can't bear the weight of ornaments. ↗

— Munshi Premchand

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Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one. ↗

— Arthur Golden

#even #hair #hopes #like #look

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. ↗

— Karl Philipp Moritz

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