"Why are stamps adorned with kings and presidents?……" — Howard Nemerov

More Adorned Quotes

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• Make great account of your precious trials, both interior and exterior; it is thus that the garden of Jesus is… — Paul of the Cross
• The poet alone knows astronomy, chemistry, vegetation, and animation, for he does not stop at these facts, but employs them… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes… — Plautus
• She 's adorned Amply that in her husband's eye looks lovely,- The truest mirror that an honest wife Can see… — John M. Tobin, Jr.
• In naked beauty most adorned. — John Milton
• In schools the main problem is not the absence of innovations but the presence of too many disconnected... piecemeal, superficially… — Michael Fullan
• A wonder then it must needs be,-that there should be any Man found so stupid and forsaken of reason as… — John Ray
• Who seems most hideous when adorned the most. — Ludovico Ariosto
• Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most. — St. Jerome
• I am reminded, now, of Leonardo's advice to painters: You should fix your eyes, he says, on certain walls stained… — Ciaran Carson
• Saints and mystics throughout history have adorned their realisations with different names and given them different faces and interpretations, but… — Sogyal Rinpoche
• This truth is a remedy against spiritual pride, namely, that none should account himself better before God than others, though… — Johann Arndt

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