Dust Quotes - Page 2

• It is true that we are made of dust. And the world is also made of dust. But the dust has motes rising.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Rising, World, Made

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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.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Debt, Firsts, Pleasure

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats (1829). “The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: Complete in One Volume”, p.231

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• In the midst of life we are in death, earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, in sure and certain hope of the Resurrection.

  Thomas Cranmer

  Ashes, Earth, Resurrection

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• You either make dust or eat dust.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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• A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life.

  Oscar Wilde

  Honesty, Men, Doubt

  Oscar Wilde (2011). “De Profundis”, p.81, Courier Corporation

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• We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see.

  George Berkeley

  Inspirational, Complaining, Firsts

  A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge introduction, sec. 3 (1710)

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• Music is supposed to wash away the dust of everyday life

  Art Blakey

  Everyday, Everyday Life, Music Is

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• We can't feel anything - all that's left inside us is dust.

  Andrei Platonov

  Feels, Left

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• Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.

  Italo Calvino

  Travel, Distance, Clouds

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• We came whirling out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust...
  The stars made a circle, and in the middle, we dance.

  Rumi

  Stars, Circles, Middle

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• The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.

  A. E. Housman

  Beer, Sky, Proud

  Last Poems (1922) no. 9

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• I learned more about the economy from one South Dakota dust storm that I did in all my years of college.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Learning, College, Years

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• Is it sin, which makes the worm a chrysalis, and the chrysalis a butterfly, and the butterfly dust?

  Max Muller

  Butterfly, Sin, Chrysalis

  Max Muller (1912). “Memories”

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• Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspirational, God, Idols

  Rabindranath Tagore (2007). “Stray Birds”, p.10, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• That great dust-heap called 'history'.

  Augustine Birrell

  History, World History

  Obiter Dicta "Carlyle" (1884) See Trotsky 2

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• He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.

  Emily Dickinson

  Poverty, Spirit, Poor

  c.1883 Complete Poems, no.1587 (first published 1890).

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• Only the actions of the just, Smell sweet and blossom in their dust.

  James Shirley

  Inspirational, Sweet, Smell

  'The Contention of Ajax and Ulysses' (1659) act 1, sc. 3

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• No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Book, School, Dry

  1941 In This Our Life, pt.3, ch.9.

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• Bullies want to abuse you. Instead of allowing that, you can use them as your personal motivators. Power up and let the bully eat your dust.

  Nick Vujicic

  Bully, Abuse, Want

  "Christian Nick Vujicic Offers Powerful Testimony On Standing Strong Against Bullying". www.huffingtonpost.com. April 2, 2014.

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• Two messengers covered with dust come to bid me fly, but I wait for him.

  Dolley Madison

  Two, Waiting, Messengers

  Dolley Madison (1886). “Memoirs and Letters of Dolly Madison: Wife of James Madison, President of the United States”, Boston ; New York, Houghton, Mifflin

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• Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established.

  George Carlin

  Futility Of Life, Trying, Next

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• Dust does rise, doesn't it? And so can I.

  Dionne Warwick

  Doe

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• Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.

  Lord Byron

  Men, Thinking, Literature

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• Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end.

  Jack Kerouac

  Mean, World, Ends

  Jack Kerouac (1995). “The Portable Jack Kerouac”, Viking Adult

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  Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

  Jesse Owens

  Friendship, Basketball, Running

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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