Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes, Growing Up 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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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

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

Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Dust Quotes , Arches Quotes

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

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

He who wrongs the innocent must bear the fruit of his act, like dust flung against the wind.

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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Dust Quotes , Wind Quotes

Few people realise the immensity of vacancy in which the dust of the material universe swims.

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Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Stars Quotes , Dust Quotes

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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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Heart 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

What is excellent, As God lives, is permanent; Hearts are dust, hearts' loves remain, Heart's love will meet thee again.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Heart 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

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

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

I would bend the knee before the poorest scavenger, the poorest untouchable in India for having participated in crushing him for centuries; I would even take the dust off his feet.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Crush 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

Death, only death, can break the lasting chain; And here, ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Dust Quotes , Cold Quotes

THIS dust was once the Man, / Gentle, plain, just and resolute—under whose cautious hand, / Against the foulest crime in history known in any land or age, / Was saved the Union of These States.

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Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Men Quotes , Dust Quotes

Would it not grieve a woman to be over-mastered by a piece of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marle?

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Grieving Quotes , Dust 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