“ On the motionless branches of some trees, autumn berries hung like clusters of coral beads, as in those fabled orchards where the fruits were jewels. ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
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“ A glory gilds the sacred page, Majestic like the sun, It gives a light to every age, It gives, but borrows none. ”
- William Cowper- Copy
- 3K
“ It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test. ”
- Henry Ward Beecher- Copy
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“ The nakedness of the indigent world may be clothed from the trimmings of the vain. ”
- Oliver Goldsmith- Copy
- 232
“ I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes. ”
- Bette Midler- Copy
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“ I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
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“ A friendly swarry, consisting of a boiled leg of mutton with the usual trimmings. ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
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“ There is nothing higher than Brahman. Everything in the universe is strung on Brahman like jewels on the thread of a necklace. ”
- Bhagavad Gita- Copy
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“ Unless experience be a jewel. - The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 2. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ I account the office of benefactor, or almoner, to which God appoints all those whom he has favored with wealth, one of the most honorable and delightful in the world. He never institutes a channel for the passage of His bounties that those bounties do not enrich and beautify. ”
- Josiah Gilbert Holland- Copy
- 309
“ To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful and ridiculous excess. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ It would have been a good resignation speech for a president leaving office because of illness, or for one who had lost congressional support because of differences over policies. It was not the speech of a president who had violated his constitutional oath and duty by obstructing justice, by abusing the power of his office, by transforming the Oval Office into a mean den where perjury and low scheming became a way of life. ”
- Leon Jaworski- Copy
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“ She was a phantom of delight When first she gleam'd upon my sight; A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament. ”
- William Wordsworth- Copy
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“ There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals. ”
- John Ruskin- Copy
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“ Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. ”
- Aristotle- Copy
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“ Education is the controlling grace to the young, consolation to the old, wealth to the poor, and ornament to the rich. ”
- Diogenes Laërtius- Copy
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“ Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue. ”
- Joseph Addison- Copy
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“ Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society. ”
- Edmund Burke- Copy
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“ Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture. ”
- Amos Bronson Alcott- Copy
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