Jack London Quotes, Dust Quotes

I would rather be ashes than dust.

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There was not one straight floor from the foundation to the roof; the ceilings were so fantastically clouded by smoke and dust, that old women might have told fortunes in them better than in grouts of tea.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Dust Quotes , Tea 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

In a way, you are poetry material; You are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out. Words burst in your essence and you carry their dust in the pores of your ethereal individuality.

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Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Dust Quotes , Essence 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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Everybody stumbles across a golden opportunity at least once in a lifetime. Unfortunately most people just pick themselves up, dust themselves down, and walk away from it.

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When my mouth shall be filled with dust, and the worm shall feed, and feed sweetly upon me, when the ambitious man shall have no satisfaction if the poorest alive tread upon him, nor the poorest receive any contentment in being made equal to princes, for they shall be equal but in dust.

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As for me, I consider myself as a speck of the dust of the devotee's feet.

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Ours is the only religion that does not depend on a person or persons; it is based upon principles. At the same time there is room for millions of persons. There is ample ground for introducing persons, but each one of them must be an illustration of the principles. We must not forget that. These principles of our religion are all safe, and it should be the life-work of everyone of us to keep then safe, and to keep them free from the accumulating dirt and dust of ages.

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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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She was like a crinkled poppy; with the desire to drink dry dust.

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In the dust where we have buried the silent races and their abominations we have buried so much of the delicate magic of life.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Race Quotes , Dust Quotes

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

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

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I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

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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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Tags : Ovid Quotes , Happy Birthday Quotes , Dust Quotes

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

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Dust Quotes , Humanity Quotes

When that churl Death my bones with dust shall cover.

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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

The unparalleled extravagance of English rule has demented the rajas and the maharajas who, unmindful of consequences, ape it and grind their subjects to dust.

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