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• Gold once out of the earth is no more due unto it; what was unreasonably committed to the ground, is reasonably resumed from it; let monuments and rich fabricks, not riches, adorn men's ashes.

  Thomas Browne

  Men, Gold, Earth

  Sir Thomas Browne (1835). “Sir Thomas Browne's Works, Including His Life and Correspondence: Pseudodoxia epidemica, books 4-7. The garden of Cyrus. Hydriotaphia. Brampton urns”, p.475

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• We cannot look at Syria, and the evil that has arisen from the ashes of indecision, and think this is not the lowest point in the world's inability to protect and defend the innocent.

  Angelina Jolie

  Thinking, Evil, Inability

  "Angelina Jolie criticizes UN Security Council on Syria refugee crisis", www.foxnews.com. April 24, 2015.

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• To sow, that others may reap; to work and plant for those that are to occupy the earth when we are dead; to project our influences far into the future, and live beyond our time; to rule as the Kings of Thought, over men who are yet unborn; to bless with the glorious gifts of Truth and Light and Liberty those who will neither know the name of the giver, nor care in what grave his unregarded ashes repose, is the true office of a Mason and the proudest destiny of a man.

  Albert Pike

  Kings, Destiny, Men

  Albert Pike (2013). “Morals and Dogma”, p.278, Simon and Schuster

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• O lust, thou infernal fire, whose fuel is gluttony; whose flame is pride, whose sparkles are wanton words; whose smoke is infamy; whose ashes are uncleanness; whose end is hell.

  Francis Quarles

  Pride, Fire, Flames

  Richard Crashaw, Francis Quarles, George Gilfillan (1857). “The Poetical Works of Richard Crashaw and Quarles' Emblems”, p.223

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• People rise out of the ashes because, at some point, they are invested with a belief in the possibility of triumph over seemingly impossible odds.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Impossible Odds, People, Triumph

  "Robert Downey Jr. On Dating Sarah Jessica Parker, Parenting And Drug Use", www.huffingtonpost.com. April 24, 2008.

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• Each book starts from ashes.

  Philip Roth

  Book, Writing

  "Philip Roth Unbound". Interview with Tina Brown, www.thedailybeast.com. October 30, 2009.

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• Man ever talks, and Man ever dreams Of better days that are yet to be, After glittering goal, that distant gleams, Running and racing untiringly. The worldly may grow old and young as it will, But the Hope of man is Improvement still. Hope bears him into life in her arms, She flutters around the boy's young bloom, The soul of youth with her magic warms, Nor rests with age in the silent tomb; For ends man his weary course at the grave, There plants he Hope o'er his ashes to wave.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Running, Dream, Hope

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• A bizarrerie of fires, cunabulum of light, it moved with a deft, almost dainty deliberation, phasing into and out of existence like a storm-shot piece of evening; or perhaps the darkness between the flares was more akin to its truest nature swirl of black ashes assembled in prancing cadence to the lowing note of desert wind down the arroyo behind buildings as empty yet filled as the pages of unread books or stillnesses between the notes of a song.

  Roger Zelazny

  Song, Book, Fire

  Roger Zelazny (1989). “Frost and Fire”, William Morrow

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• Ambition is frequently the only refuge which life has left to the denied or mortified affections. We chide at the grasping eye, the daring wing, the soul that seems to thirst for sovereignty only, and know not that the flight of this ambitious bird has been from a bosom or home that is filled with ashes.

  William Gilmore Simms

  Eye, Home, Ambition

  William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.74

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• I shall show the cinders of my spirits Through the ashes of my chance.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Philosophy, History

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Isaac Reed (1820). “Select Plays of William Shakespeare: In Six Volumes. With the Corrections & Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added, Notes”, p.394

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• And now that thou art lying, my dear old Carian guest, A handful of grey ashes, long, long ago at rest, Still are thy pleasant voices, thy nightingales awake; For Death, he taketh all away, but them he cannot take.

  Callimachus

  Art, Lying, Long Ago

  Callimachus, “Heraclitus”

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• Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.

  Martial

  Too Late, Glory, Late

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• A nuclear war does not defend a country and it does not defend a system. I've put it the same way many times; not even the most accomplished ideologue will be able to tell the difference between the ashes of capitalism and the ashes of communism.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Country, War, Differences

  "The Ashes of Capitalism and the Ashes of Communism". "Quest for Peace: an Introduction". Book edited by John M. Whiteley, 1986.

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• There is nothing--no, nothing--innocent or good, that dies and is forgotten; let us hold to that faith or none. An infant, a prattling child, dying in the cradle, will live again in the better thoughts of those that loved it, and play its part through them in the redeeming actions of the world, though its body be burnt to ashes or drowned in the deep sea.

  Charles Dickens

  Children, Sea, Play

  Charles Dickens (1841). “The Old Curiosity Shop”, p.102, B Times

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• Oh, no! my heart can never be
  Again in lightest hopes the same;
  The love that lingers there for thee
  Hath more of ashes than of flame.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Heart, Flames, Thee

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• The ash her purple drops forgivingly
  And sadly, breaking not the general hush;
  The maple swamps glow like a sunset sea,
  Each leaf a ripple with its separate flush;
  All round the wood's edge creeps the skirting blaze,
  Ere the rain falls, the cautious farmer burns his brush.

  James Russell Lowell

  Fall, Rain, Sunset

  James Russell Lowell (2012). “The Vision of Sir Launfal And Other Poems by James Russell Lowell, With a Biographical Sketch and Notes, a Portrait and Other Illustrations”, p.70, tredition

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• What mighty ills have not been done by woman!
  Who was't betray'd the Capitol? A woman;
  Who lost Mark Antony the world? A woman;
  Who was the cause of a long ten years' war,
  And laid at last old Troy is ashes? Woman;
  Destructive, damnable, deceitful woman!

  Thomas Otway

  War, Women, Years

  Thomas Otway, Thomas Thornton (1813). “The Works of Mr. Thomas Otway: In Three Volumes”, p.254

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• Sorrow, the heart must bear,
  Sits in the home of each, conspicuous there.
  Many a circumstance, at least,
  Touches the very breast.
  For those
  Whom any sent away,--he knows:
  And in the live man's stead,
  Armor and ashes reach
  The house of each.

  Robert Browning

  Home, Heart, Men

  Robert Browning (2008). “The Agamemnon of Aeschylus, La Saisiaz, Etc.”, p.15, Wildside Press LLC

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• Divine ashes are better then earthly meale.

  George Herbert

  Divine

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.349

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• Dead news like dead love has no phoenix in its ashes.

  Enid Bagnold

  Phoenix, News, Publicity

  Enid Bagnold (2013). “National Velvet”, p.301, Courier Corporation

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• In my beginning is my end. In succession Houses rise and fall, crumble, are extended, Are removed, destroyed, restored, or in their place Is an open field, or a factory, or a by-pass. Old stone to new building, old timber to new fires, Old fires to ashes, and ashes to the earth Which is already flesh, fur and faeces, Bone of man and beast, cornstalk and leaf.

  T. S. Eliot

  Fall, Men, Fire

  Four Quartets "East Coker" pt. 1 (1940)

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• From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.

  Ezra Pound

  Tree, Religion, Together

  Ezra Pound (1996). “The Cantos of Ezra Pound”, p.625, New Directions Publishing

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• Straight out of Blackpool, I'm William Regal. My rhymes so intense, they shouldn't be legal. My style is refined, not crude and crass. I'll keep you grounded, like volcanic ash. I'll take you down, rung by rung. I'm just like British Parliment; I'm completely hung. Straight-up gangsta trippin'. Yes, boy!

  William Regal

  Gangsta, Boys, Wwe

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• The mystery lies in the here and now. The mystery is: What is one to do with oneself? As you get older you begin to realize the trick time is playing, and that unless you do something about it, the passage of time is nothing but the encroachment of the horrible banality of the past on the pure future. The past devours the future like a tape recorder, converting pure possibility into banality. The present is the tape head, the mouth of time. Then where is the mystery and why bother kicking through the ashes? Because there is a clue in the past.

  Walker Percy

  Time, Lying, Past

  Walker Percy (2011). “Lancelot”, p.46, Open Road Media

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• Instinct. When the house burns one forgets even lunch. Yes, but one eats it later in the ashes.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lunch, House, Forget

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.271, Modern Library

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