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Quotes Tagged "ornament"

So may the outward shows be least themselves: The world is still deceived with ornament. In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being seasoned with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament? There is no vice so simple but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
— William Shakespeare The merchant of Venice
Tags: virtue, vice, religion, pretense, ornament, law, falsehood, appearances
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
— Aristotle
Tags: adversity, ornament, refuge, prosperity, education
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
— Aristotle
Tags: ornament, age, reproach, old, youth, old-age
Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
— Edmund Burke
Tags: ornament, nobility, order, graceful, society
The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Tags: character, ornament, her, purity, real, woman
Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.
— Joseph Addison
Tags: modesty, ornament, guard, virtue, only
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