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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.»
Author: Amos Bronson Alcott
(Philosopher, Teacher)
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animate, animates, center, embraces, notion, ornament
«Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue»
«Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold: all these gather themselves together, and come to thee. As I live, saith the LORD, thou shalt surely clothe thee with them all, as with an ornament, and bind them on thee, as a bride doeth.»
«My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: / For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.»
«She shall give to thine head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee.»
«Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
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civil order, Civil society, Corinthian, graceful, nobility, ornament, polished
«Men use a new lesson or experience later on as a ploughshare or perhaps also as a weapon; women at once make it into an ornament»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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later on, lesson, ornament, ornamented, ploughshare, weapon
«These studies are a spur to the young, a delight to the old; an ornament in prosperity, a consoling refuge in adversity; they are pleasure for us at home, and no burden abroad; they stay up with us at night, they accompany us when we travel, they are»
«My precept to all who build is, that the owner should be an ornament to the house, and not the house to the owner»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Lawyer, Orator, Scholar, Statesman, Writer)
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ornament, ornamented, owner, precept
«So may the outward shows be least themselves:The world is still deceived with ornament.»
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