"He adorned whatever subject he either spoke or……" — Lord Chesterfield
"He adorned whatever subject he either spoke or wrote upon, by the most splendid eloquence."
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228 Quotes by Lord Chesterfield
Lord Chesterfield has 228 quotes on this site.
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Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination:…
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Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
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Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere,…
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Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
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Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.
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The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old…
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In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.
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A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.
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Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.
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An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
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Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the…
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Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
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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
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The poet alone knows astronomy, chemistry, vegetation, and animation, for he does not stop at these facts, but employs them…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes…
— Plautus
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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.
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In naked beauty most adorned.
— John Milton
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In schools the main problem is not the absence of innovations but the presence of too many disconnected... piecemeal, superficially…
— Michael Fullan
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A wonder then it must needs be,-that there should be any Man found so stupid and forsaken of reason as…
— John Ray
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Who seems most hideous when adorned the most.
— Ludovico Ariosto
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Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.
— St. Jerome
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I am reminded, now, of Leonardo's advice to painters: You should fix your eyes, he says, on certain walls stained…
— Ciaran Carson
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Saints and mystics throughout history have adorned their realisations with different names and given them different faces and interpretations, but…
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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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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