Friend Ornaments Quotes & Sayings

Plato defines melody to consist of harmony, number and words: harmony naked of itself, words the ornament of harmony, number the common friend and uniter of them both. — John Dowland

A truth that is merely handed on, without being thought anew from its very foundations, has lost its vital power. — Hans Urs Von Balthasar

As if your essence were hung up in a closet like a dress too good to be worn and you were reduced to going out in only your appearance. — Angela Carter

Don't think about yourself what you are, just do it because will power and time teach & learn you what you are. — AbdulNasir

On 10 August 1914, five days after war was declared, Henry James, in a letter to a friend, expressed his revulsion at the prospect of war, and articulated the illusion that had preceded it:

'Black and hideous to me is the tragedy that gathers, and I'm sick beyond cure to have lived on to see it. You and I, the ornaments of our generation, should have been spared the wreck of our beliefs that through the long years we had seen civilization grow and the worst become impossible. — Henry James

This was what he was born for. This was what made sense. The only thing. — T.C. Boyle

Things have a way of settling back. — Jenny Han