Francis Bacon Quotes, Dust Quotes, Tree Quotes

It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what dust do I raise!

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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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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Opportunity Quotes , Dust Quotes

Man seems merely dust postponed: the sublime as an encounter - pleasurable, intoxicating, even - with human weakness in the face of strength, age and size of the universe.

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

A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars - billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.

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Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Stars Quotes , Dust Quotes

At that instant he knew that all his doubts, even the impossibility of believing with his reason, of which he was aware in himself, did not in the least hinder his turning to God. All of that now floated out of his soul like dust. To whom was he to turn if not to Him in whose hands he felt himself, his soul, and his love?

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Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Believe Quotes , Dust Quotes

Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off ... Do not for ever with thy vailed lids Seek for thy noble father in the dust.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Father Quotes , Dust Quotes

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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Tags : John Donne Quotes , Men Quotes , Dust Quotes

If at first you don't succeed/You can dust it off and try again/Dust yourself off and try again.

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Tags : Aaliyah Quotes , Dust Quotes , Trying Quotes

I have investigated the dust-heaps of humanity, and found a treasure in all of them. I have found that humanity is not incidentally engaged, but eternally and systematically engaged, in throwing gold into the gutter and diamonds into the sea.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Dust Quotes , Sea Quotes

I always knew I was a dust. But I never knew I was also a universe.

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Tags : Akiane Kramarik Quotes , Dust Quotes

Who then to frail mortality shall trust But limns the water, or but writes in dust.

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Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Writing Quotes , Dust Quotes

Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Dust Quotes , Hands Quotes

What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!

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Tags : Agnes Repplier Quotes , Laughter Quotes , Dust 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

O fools, awake! The rites ye sacred hold Are but a cheat contrived by men of old Who lusted after wealth and gained their lust And died in baseness-and their law is dust.

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Tags : Al-Maʿarri Quotes , Men 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

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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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Death 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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Tags : Ovid Quotes , Happy Birthday Quotes , Dust Quotes

I know that age to age succeeds, Blowing a noise of tongues and deeds, A dust of systems and of creeds.

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Dust Quotes , Age Quotes

So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, 'Thou must,' The youth whispers, 'I can.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Men Quotes , Dust Quotes