Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes, Fall Quotes, Dust Quotes

I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope thro' darkness up to God, I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope.

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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

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

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Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Book 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

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

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

By virtue of the Deity thought renews itself inexhaustibly every day and the thing whereon it shines, though it were dust and sand, is a new subject with countless relations.

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

Let us go forth, the tellers of tales, and seize whatever prey the heart long for, and have no fear. Everything exists, everything is true, and the earth is only a little dust under our feet.

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Heart Quotes , Dust Quotes

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

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

When that churl Death my bones with dust shall cover.

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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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Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Dust Quotes , Debt 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

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

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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Dust Quotes , Wind 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

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

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Tags : Ramakrishna Quotes , Feet Quotes , Dust Quotes

All religions enjoined worship of the One God who is all-pervasive. He is present even in a drop of water or in a tiny speck of dust.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , God 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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Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Dust Quotes , Mind 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