"Love adorns itself; it seeks to prove inward……" — Rabindranath Tagore

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• The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed. — Honore de Balzac
• At the time of Holy Communion I sometimes picture my soul under the figure of a little child of three… — Therese of Lisieux
• True ornament is not a matter of prettifying externals. It is organic with the structure it adorns, whether a person,… — Frank Lloyd Wright
• Many of the phenomena of Winter are suggestive of an inexpressible tenderness and fragile delicacy. We are accustomed to hear… — Henry David Thoreau
• ... where the Greeks had modesty, we have cant; where they had poetry, we have cant; where they had patriotism,… — Thomas Love Peacock
• To a naturalist nothing is indifferent; the humble moss that creeps upon the stone is equally interesting as the lofty… — James Hutton
• Indecency in anything spoils it. And modesty in anything adorns it. — Ibn Majah
• FOLLY, n. That "gift and faculty divine" whose creative and controlling energy inspires Man's mind, guides his actions and adorns… — Ambrose Bierce
• Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends. — Robert South
• For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem, - a thought so passionate and alive… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Not he that adorns but he that adores makes a divinity. — Baltasar Gracian
• Smile may be of different style,but that which adorns the face of a real person is only an honest ONE. — Anuj

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