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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