Just where she had paused, the brook chanced to form a pool so smooth and quiet that it reflected a perfect image of her little figure, with all the brilliant picturesqueness of her beauty, in its adornment of flowers and wreathed foliage.... It was strange, the way in which Pearl stood, looking so steadfastly at them through the dim medium of the forest gloom, herself, meanwhile, all glorified with a ray of sunshine....
Quotes about adornment (11 Quotes)
Adornment is never anything except a reflection of the heart.
Wealth and children are an adornment of the life of this world and the ever-abiding, the good works, are better with your Lord in reward and better in expectation.
As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.
Outward simplicity befits ordinary men, like a garment made to measure for them but it serves as an adornment to those who have filled their lives with great deeds they might be compared to some beauty carelessly dressed and thereby all the more attractive.
The great physician, Dr. Henry G. Armitage, Jr., states, 'Not without comment shall it come to pass that a state (so fretful for the preservation of the praying mantis but holding an unborn baby to be of no account) can send a spark of immortality swinging out into limbo and conspire with citizen and physician to turn a fragile, living object of simple innocence and complex wonder into a pathetic pulp and consign it by rude and peremptory passage to the furnace or sewer unknown, unwanted and undefended.' He further questions how a woman as 'the fertile adornment of our race can be deluded into the notion that she is a mere poetress of unwanted luggage or be by blandishment seduced into believing that she has dominion over life not her own.' He says, 'An abortion is never commonplace, for the world holds no heartbreak like the death of innocence.'
For just as some women are said to be handsome though without adornment, so this subtle manner of speech, though lacking in artificial graces, delights us.
And whatever things you have been given are only a provision of this world's life and its adornment, and whatever is with Allah is better and more lasting do you not then understand Is he to whom We have promised a goodly promise which he shall meet with like him whom We have provided with the provisions of this world's life, then on the day of resurrection he shall be of those who are brought up And on the day when He will call them and say Where are those whom you deemed to be My associates Those against whom the sentence has become confirmed will say Our Lord these are they whom we caused to err we caused them to err as we ourselves did err to Thee we declare ourselves to be clear (of them) they never served Us.
What time he can spare from the adornment of his person he devotes to the neglect of his duties.
Isn't that the problem That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion (as it were) for passion All the cosmetics names seemed obscenely obvious to me in their promises of sexual bliss. They were all firming or up
The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.