Dust Quotes - Page 5

• Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Positive, Christian

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• Our destiny is not determined by the number of times we stumble but by the number of times we rise up, dust ourselves off, and move forward.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Inspirational, Moving On, Spiritual

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• There were dreams once upon a time, dreams now all but forgotten. On sad days I dust them off and fondle them nostalgically, with a patronizing wonder at the naivete of the youth who dreamed them.

  Glen Cook

  Dream, Once Upon A Time, Youth

  Glen Cook (2007). “Chronicles of the Black Company”, p.457, Macmillan

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• Speaking of dust, ‘out of which we came and to which we shall return,’ do you know that after we are dead our corpses are devoured by different kinds of worms according as we are fat or thin? In fat corpses one species of maggot is found, the rhizophagus, while thin corpses are patronized only by the phora. The latter is evidently the aristocrat, the fastidious gourmet which turns up its nose at a heavy meal of copious breasts and juicy at bellies. Just think, there is no perfect equality, even in the manner in which we feed the worms.

  Joris-Karl Huysmans

  Thinking, Perfect, Noses

  Joris-Karl Huysmans (1972). “L…-bas (Down There).”, p.30, Courier Corporation

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• At the time when talk of war, intimidation, and aggression is exchanged between politicians, the name of their country, Iran, is spoken here through her glorious culture, a rich and ancient culture that has been hidden under the heavy dust of politics.

  Asghar Farhadi

  Country, War, Iran

  "Iran Calls Oscar Win A Success Over Israel". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. February 27, 2012.

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• Being all fashioned of the self-same dust, let us be merciful as well as just

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Fashion, Self, Mercy

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.807, Delphi Classics

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• The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Should, Seekers

  Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.9, Courier Corporation

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• This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?

  William Shakespeare

  Moving, Angel, Men

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [316]

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• I've got to pick myself up Dust myself off And start all over again.

  Peter Tosh

  Picks

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust.

  Margery Allingham

  Sad, Ties, Mourning

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• I worked in your orchards of peaches and prunes. I slept on the ground in the light of the moon. On the edge of the city you'll see us and then, we come with the dust and we go with the wind.

  Woody Guthrie

  Moon, Light, Wind

  Song: Pastures Of Plenty

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• Mind can never be intelligent - only no-mind is intelligent. Only no-mind is original and radical. Only no-mind is revolutionary - revolution in action. The mind gives you a sort of stupor. Burdened by the memories of the past, burdened by the projections of the future, you go on living - at the minimum. You dont live at the maximum. Your flame remains very dim. Once you start dropping thoughts, the dust that you have collected in the past, the flame arises - clean, clear, alive, young. Your whole life becomes a flame, and a flame without any smoke. That is what awareness is.

  Rajneesh

  Memories, Intelligent, Past

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• It was like a miracle, but before our very eyes, and almost in the drawing of a breath, the whole body crumbled into dust and passed from our sight.

  Bram Stoker

  Eye, Sight, Drawing

  Bram Stoker (2006). “Dracula - Literary Touchstone Edition”, p.333, Prestwick House Inc

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• DUST includes rarities, demos, unreleased songs and instrumentals, live recordings, and more.

  Adrian Belew

  Song, Demos, Rarity

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• Wash the dust from your SOUl and HEART with wisdom's WATER.

  Rumi

  Heart, Water, Soul

  Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2008). “Love's Ripening: Rumi on the Heart's Journey”, p.3, Shambhala Publications

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• Dreams have a poetic integrity and truth. This limbo and dust-hole of thought is presided over by a certain reason, too.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Integrity, Poetic

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• Many a humble soul will be amazed to find that the seed it sowed in weakness, in the dust of daily life, has blossomed into immortal flowers under the eye of the Lord.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Flower, Humble, Eye

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.645, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.

  William Shakespeare

  Beauty, Moving, Angel

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [316]

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• The dust of exploded beliefs may make a fine sunset.

  Geoffrey Madan

  Sunset, May, Belief

  'Livre sans nom: Twelve Reflections' (privately printed 1934) no. 12

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• O God, when my faith gets overladen with dust, blow it clean with the wind of your Spirit. When my habits of obedience get stiff and rusty, anoint them with the oil of your Spirit. Restore the enthusiasm of my first love for you.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  First Love, Blow, Wind

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• Men often stumble onto the truth but then quickly dust themselves off and hurry away.

  Winston Churchill

  Men

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• God knows where every particle of the handful of dust has gone; he has marked in his book the wandering of every one of its atoms. He hath death so open before His view, that He can bring all these together, bone to bone, and clothe them with the very flesh that robed them in the days of yore, and make them live again.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Book, Views, Together

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• I believe that every particle of dust that dances in the sunbeam does not move an atom more or less that God wishes - that every particle of spray that dashes against the steamboat has its orbit, as well as the sun in the heavens - that the chaff from the hand of the winnower is steered as the stars in their course. The creeping of an aphid over the rosebush is as much fixed as the march of the devastating pestilence - the fall of...leaves from a poplar is as fully ordained as the tumbling of an avalanche.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Stars, Moving, Fall

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1857). “Sermons of the Rev. C.H. Spurgeon: Second series”, p.201

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• I went to preaching again. The sermons were not different; I did not present any new truths, and yet hundreds were converted. I would not now be placed back where I was before that blessed experience if you should give me all the world - it would be as dust in the balance.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Blessed, Giving, Balance

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• Anywhere where the humanity of people is undermined, anywhere where people are left in the dust, there we will find our cause.

  Desmond Tutu

  People, Humanity, Causes

  Source: sojo.net

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