Laozi Quotes, Block Quotes, Dust Quotes

Those who know don't talk. Those who talk don't know. Close your mouth, block off your senses, blunt your sharpness, untie your knots, soften your glare, settle your dust. This is the primal identity. Be like the Tao. It can't be approached or withdrawn from, benefited or harmed, honored or brought into disgrace. It gives itself up continually. That is why it endures.

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Tags : Laozi Quotes , Block Quotes , Dust Quotes

But clay and clay differs in dignity, Whose dust is both alike.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Dust Quotes , Clay Quotes

Mask your brightness. Be at one with the dust of the earth. This is primal union.

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Tags : Laozi Quotes , Dust Quotes , Earth Quotes

Turning, for them who pass, the common dust Of servile opportunity to gold.

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Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Opportunity 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

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

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

A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold, And pavement stars,--as stars to thee appear Seen in the galaxy, that milky way Which nightly as a circling zone thou seest Powder'd with stars.

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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Stars 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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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Dust Quotes , India Quotes

After more than two decades of trying to destroy the firearms rights of more than 80 million law-abiding American gun owners - and statistically failing to show any impact on violent crime - the Brady 'Campaign Against Illegal Guns' is yet another crusade whose ultimate goal is to trample the Second Amendment into dust.

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Tags : Alan Gottlieb Quotes , Gun Quotes , Dust Quotes

It is not just nature that defies us. Human life is as overwhelming... If we spend time in it [the vast spaces of nature], they may help us to accept more graciously the great, unfathomable events that molest our lives and will inevitably return us to dust.

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Tags : Alain de Botton Quotes , Life 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

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

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

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

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

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

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Dust Quotes , Desire Quotes

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

I would rather be ashes than dust.

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Tags : Jack London Quotes , Dust Quotes

Broadway - the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.

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Tags : O. Henry Quotes , Dust Quotes , Gold Quotes