Quotes with adorn

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• Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.

  Eliza Farnham
  American novelist, feminist and abolitionist (1815 - 1864)
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• I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.

  George Santayana
  Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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• Know first who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.

  Euripides
  Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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• Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

  Epictetus
  Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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• Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

  William Hazlitt
  English writer (1778 - 1830)
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• Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world.

  Lord Chesterfield
  English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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• Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's scepter, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

  Mary Wollstonecraft
  British feministisch writer (1759 - 1797)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• possessions
• accordingly
• beautiful
• knowledge
• yourself
• maintain

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