Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes, Men Quotes, Dust Quotes

All the windy ways of men Are but dust that rises up, And is lightly laid again.

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

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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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But when the dust has drunk the blood of men, no resurrection comes for one who's dead.

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Tags : Aeschylus Quotes , Men Quotes , Dust 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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His success may be great, but be it ever so great the wheel of fortune may turn again and bring him down into the dust.

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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Dust Quotes , May Quotes

Offensive acts come back upon the evil doer, like dust that is thrown against the wind.

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Virtue!--to be good and just-- Every heart, when sifted well, Is a clot of warmer dust, Mix'd with cunning sparks of hell.

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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

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 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

But words have been used too often; touched and turned, and left exposed to the dust of the street. The words we seek hang close to the tree. We come at dawn and find them sweet beneath the leaf.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Sweet Quotes , Dust Quotes

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

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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

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 would rather be ashes than dust.

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Tags : Jack London 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

Despite the many iniquities that have found entrance into the practices of image-worship as it is in vogue now, I do not condemn it. Ay, where would I have been if I had not been blessed with the dust of the holy feet of that orthodox, image-worshipping Brahmin!

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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Blessed Quotes , Dust Quotes

One should never be ashamed to cry. Tears are rain on the dust of earth.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Rain Quotes , Dust Quotes

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

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