A Quote by Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

Truth shines brightest thro' the plainest dress.

Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

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Brightest Dress Shines Truth

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Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
Irish - Celebrity
1630 - January 18, 1685

Abstruse and mystic thoughts you must express With painful care, but seeming easiness; For truth shines brightest thro' the plainest dress.

Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

The light that shines farthest shines brightest nearest home.

Charles Studd

It is in the darkest night that the light we are shines brightest

Matthew Woodring Stover

It is in the dark times that the light of friendship shines brightest.

Richard Paul Evans

Its when the sun shines the brightest that our shadows appear the biggest

Robin Sharma

The light that shines the farthest will shine the brightest at home.

Oswald J. Smith

Put even the plainest woman into a beautiful dress and unconsciously she will try to live up to it.

Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon

...beauty, like truth, never is so glorious as when it goes the plainest.

Laurence Sterne

Stupidity is active in every direction, and can dress up in all the clothes of truth. Truth, on the other hand, has for every occasion only one dress and one path, and is always at a disadvantage.

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Tony Meloto

Measure not God's love and favour by your own feeling. The sun shines as clearly in the darkest day as it does in the brightest. The difference is not in the sun, but in some clouds which hinder the manifestation of the light thereof.

Richard Sibbes

But deep this truth impressed my mind — Thro' all his works abroad, The heart benevolent and kind The most resembles God.

Robert Burns

Brass shines with constant usage, a beautiful dress needs wearing,Leave a house empty, it rots.

Ovid

Earth is dry to the centre, But spring, a new comer, A spring rich and strange, Shall make the winds blow Round and round, Thro' and thro', Here and there, Till the air And the ground Shall be fill'd with life anew.