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ornaments
«The house built on the sand may oftentimes be built higher, have more fair parapets and battlements, windows and ornaments, than that which is built upon the rock; yet all gifts and privileges equal not one grace»
Author: John Owen
| About:
Gifts,
Houses
| Keywords:
battlement, battlements, oftentimes, ornaments, privileges, The Rock, The Sand, windows
«Ye daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in scarlet, with other delights, who put on ornaments of gold upon your apparel.»
«Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, Rise thou, and fall upon us: for as the man is, so is his strength. And Gideon arose, and slew Zebah and Zalmunna, and took away the ornaments that were on their camels' necks.»
«O generation, see ye the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my people, We are lords; we will come no more unto thee? / Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.»
«The hand is not so well adorned by ornaments as by charitable offerings; one does not become clean by smearing sandalwood paste upon the body as by taking a bath; one does not become so much satisfied by dinner as by having respect shown to him; and salvation is not attained by self-adornment as by cultivation of spiritual knowledge.»
Author: Chanakya
(Politician, strategist, Writer)
| Keywords:
adorning, adornments, adorns, offerings, ornaments, shown, smearing, smears
«Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
Ability,
Learning,
Study
| Keywords:
ornaments, studies
«True, there are architects so called in this country, and I have heard of one at least possessed with the idea of making architectural ornaments have a core of truth, a necessity, and hence a beauty, as if it were a revelation to him.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
architectural, core, ornaments, possessed, revelation, so-called
«The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those most distinguished even in popular estimation for wisdom and virtue, are complete skeptics in religion»
Author: John Stuart Mill
(Economist, Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
World
| Keywords:
astonished, brightest, distinguished, estimation, estimations, Great A, ornaments, skeptics, The Skeptic