Lord Byron Quotes, Death Quotes, Dust Quotes

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the 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

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

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

We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam

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Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Dust Quotes , Sunbeams Quotes

The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.

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Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Dust Quotes , Blood Quotes

I loved my motherland dearly before I went to America and England. After my return, every particle of dust of this land seems sacred to me.

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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Motivational Quotes , Dust 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

Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.

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

Why, what is pomp, rule, reign, but earth and dust? And, live we how we can, yet die we must.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Dust Quotes , Earth 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 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

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

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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Tags : Al-Maʿarri Quotes , Men Quotes , Dust Quotes

When that churl Death my bones with dust shall cover.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Death Quotes , Dust Quotes

I grabbed a pile of dust, and holding it up, foolishly asked for as many birthdays as the grains of dust, I forgot to ask that they be years of youth.

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Tags : Ovid Quotes , Happy Birthday Quotes , Dust Quotes

The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Dust Quotes , Should 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

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

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