George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Progress Quotes, Stones Quotes

Grain by grain, a loaf. Stone upon stone, a palace.

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To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbial disgrace. [Lat., Culpa enim illa, bis ad eundem, vulgari reprehensa proverbio est.]

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She might have melted a heart of stone, but nothing can melt a heart of wood.

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Are there no stones in heaven But what serves for thunder?

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Only the dead can be forgiven; But when I think of that my tongue's a stone.

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Failing is another stepping-stone to greatness.

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Too much success is not an advantage. Do not tinkle like jade Or clatter like stone chimes.

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Death approaches, which is always impending like the stone over Tantalus: then comes superstition with which he who is imbued can never have peace of mind.

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Failure is a stepping-stone to greatness.

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You start a question, and it's like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others.

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Be nobody's darling; Be an outcast. Take the contradictions Of your life And wrap around You like a shawl, To parry stones To keep you warm.

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If you are stone, be magnetic; if a plant, be sensitive; but if you are human be love.

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We infer the spirit of the nation in great measure from the language, which is a sort of monument, to which each forcible individual in a course of many hundred years has contributed a stone.

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Into a world unknown,-the corner-stone of a nation!

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"Gutta cavat lapidem." (Dripping water carves a stone.)

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It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone, and can be made as offensive as the brickbat. They at once sought for the journalist, found him, developed him, and made him their industrious and well-paid servant. It is greatly to be regretted, for both their sakes.

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Gutta cavat lapidem, non vi sed saepe cadendo. (The drop excavates the stone, not with force but by falling often.)

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I wept not — so to stone I grew within.

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Anarchy is the stepping stone to absolute power.

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The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare.

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