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Ornaments Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendour cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate; those soft intervals of unbended…
- As not every instance of similitude can be considered as a proof of imitation, so not every imitation ought to be stigmatised as plagiarism. The…
More Ornaments Quotes
- Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. — Aristotle
- Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. — Aristotle
- Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability. — Francis Bacon
- Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue. — Joseph Addison
- Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society. — Edmund Burke
- Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children… — Amos Bronson Alcott
- I think that 'Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance' was mentally taxing, if only because I had to go to a Christmas party… — Nicolas Cage
- Biceps are like ornaments on a Christmas tree. — Ed Coan
- Gardening is a luxury occupation: an ornament, not a necessity, of life.... Fortunate gardener, who may preoccupy himself solely with beauty in… — Vita Sackville-West
- There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals. — John Ruskin
- No one has ever been accused for not providing ornaments, but for those who neglect their neighbour a hell awaits with an… — Saint John Chrysostom
- At most, the greatest persons are but great wens, and excrescences; men of wit and delightful conversation, but as morals for ornament,… — John Donne