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Embellish the soul with simplicity, with prudence, and everything which is neither virtuous nor vicious. Love all men. Walk according to God; for, as a poet hath said, his laws govern all. -- Marcus Aurelius
I just find things that work and embellish them. -- Lindsey Buckingham
I do write a lot from personal experience, but I also embellish a bit. -- Miranda Lambert
There's a tendency for designers to embellish the size of their business. I never lie. -- Carolina Herrera
I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing. -- Kate Smith
I always say show me a storyteller who doesn't embellish, and I'll show you a bad one. -- Rabih Alameddine
The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to make things up. -- Donna Tartt
When you meet someone, you meet their face. It's the most potent part of the body to embellish. -- Philip Treacy
People do ask, 'Are you going to embellish this stuff?' I wouldn't change any of my guitar parts. -- Joey Santiago
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I'm a songwriter, and I understand artistic licence. We can embellish, go on little journeys and explore our inner selves. It can be quite self-indulgent. -- Laura Marling
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
There are people who take rumors and embellish them in a way that can be devastating. And this pollution has to be eradicated by people in our business as best we can. -- Bob Woodward
Creating characters is like throwing together ingredients for a recipe. I take characteristics I like and dislike in real people I know, or know of, and use them to embellish and define characters. -- Cassandra Clare
But even after the first week, when Hart got out of the presidential race because of the Washington Post's threat to reveal a long-term relationship Hart had apparently been having with a prominent Washington woman, the media continued to embellish my past. -- Donna Rice
Obviously, in journalism, you're confined to what happens. And the tendency to embellish, to mythologize, it's in us. It makes things more interesting, a closer call. But journalism taught me how to write a sentence that would make someone want to read the next one. -- Amy Hempel
If you have a piece by Bach, he often develops the piece to such a high level that you can hardly do much more to it. But Saint-Luc wrote very simple baroque music, and so if you do not embellish it, it just falls apart. It's way too simple. -- David Russell
I like the thought that what we are to do on this earth is embellish it for its greater beauty, so that oncoming generations can look back to the shapes we leave here and get the same thrill that I get in looking back at theirs - at the Parthenon, at Chartres Cathedral. -- Philip Johnson
Writers of fiction embellish reality almost without knowing it. -- Aljean Harmetz
Life is hard enough, you don't have to embellish the drama! -- Marianne Williamson
Once you find the right idea, then go ahead and embellish it. -- Vincente Minnelli
Religion increasingly is tending to degenerate into a decent formula wherewith to embellish a comfortable life. -- Alfred North Whitehead
Some are born to invent, others to embellish; but the gilder attracts more attention than the architect. -- Luc de Clapiers
How comes it that you curse, Frere Jean? It's only, said the monk, in order to embellish my language. They are the colors of Ciceronian rhetoric. -- Francois Rabelais
The true function of art is to criticize, embellish and edit nature"¦ the artist is a sort of impassioned proof-reader, blue penciling the bad spelling of God. -- H. L. Mencken
In this time of national crises...per haps we would do well to spend a few minutes in considering projects which grace and embellish the earth, instead of shaking it. -- Hubert H. Humphrey
But the shadow is merely somewhat inferior, primitive, unadapted, and awkward; not wholly bad. It even contains childish or primitive qualities which would in a way vitalize and embellish human existence, but convention forbids! -- C.G. Jung
Rain-diamonds, this winter morning, embellish the tangle of unpruned pear-tree twigs; each solitaire, placed, it appears, with considered judgement, bears the light beneath the rifted clouds - the invisible shared out in endless abundance. -- Denise Levertov

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