Ovid Quotes, Happy Birthday Quotes, Dust Quotes

I grabbed a pile of dust, and holding it up, foolishly asked for as many birthdays as the grains of dust, I forgot to ask that they be years of youth.

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Turning, for them who pass, the common dust Of servile opportunity to gold.

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Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Opportunity Quotes , Dust Quotes

It is not just nature that defies us. Human life is as overwhelming... If we spend time in it [the vast spaces of nature], they may help us to accept more graciously the great, unfathomable events that molest our lives and will inevitably return us to dust.

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Tags : Alain de Botton Quotes , Life Quotes , Dust Quotes

You are not worth the dust which the rude wind Blows in your face.

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Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America.

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All the dry ethics of the world turn to dust because apart from God they are lifeless.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , God Quotes , Dust Quotes

We are dust and shadow. [Lat., Pulvis et umbra sumus.]

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Few people realise the immensity of vacancy in which the dust of the material universe swims.

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Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Stars Quotes , Dust Quotes

She doth mean the earth to me! By earth, I actually mean dust.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Mean Quotes , Dust Quotes

This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small or great in your life will have to return to you, all in the same succession and sequence - even this spider and this moonlight between the trees, and even this moment and I myself. The eternal hourglass of existence is turned upside down again and again, and you with it, speck of dust!

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Pain Quotes , Dust Quotes

Dust to the dust! but the pure spirit shall flow Back to the burning fountain whence it came, A portion of the Eternal.

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Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Death Quotes , Dust Quotes

Until the mind can love, and admire, and trust, and hope, and endure, reasoned principles of moral conduct are seeds cast upon the highway of life which the unconscious passenger tramples into dust.

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Why, what is pomp, rule, reign, but earth and dust? And, live we how we can, yet die we must.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Dust Quotes , Earth Quotes

For, after all, you do grow up, you do outgrow your ideals, which turn to dust and ashes, which are shattered into fragments; and if you have no other life, you just have to build one up out of these fragments.

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Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Growing Up Quotes , Dust Quotes

First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too.

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And all, but Lust, is turned to dust In Humanity's machine.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Dust Quotes , Humanity Quotes

We can see the Divine in each speck of dust, but that doesn't stop us from wiping it away with a wet sponge. The Divine doesn't disappear; it's transformed into the clean surface.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Dust Quotes , Witch Quotes

i will show you fear in a handful of dust." t.s. eliot we don't actually fear death, we fear that no one will notice our absence, that we will disappear without a trace.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Dust Quotes , Absence Quotes

Where the past is venerated the clean and those who clean things up should be kept out. Piety is never happy without a little dust, dirt, and rubbish.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Past Quotes , Dust Quotes

Their errors have been weighed and found to have been dust in the balance; if their sins were as scarlet, they are now white as snow: they have been washed in the blood of the mediator and the redeemer, Time.

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Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Forgiveness Quotes , Dust Quotes