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“Since in reality all is void, Whereon can the dust fall?”

Reality Fall Dust Void

Author:Huineng

“If a gem falls into mud it is still valuable. If dust ascends to heaven, it remains valueless.”

Ifs Stills Wisdom Fall Heaven Remains Valuable Dust Islamic Mud Gems Valueless

Author:Saadi

“You cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does, she will wither without sun; she will decay in her sheath as a narcissus will if you do not give her air enough; she might fall and defile her head in dust if you leave her without help at some moments in her life; but you cannot fetter her; she must take her own fair form and way if she take any.”

Ifs Way Giving Doe Enough Moments Helping Might Form Fall Girl Grows Growth Sun Air Flower Fairs Dust Decay Hammers Fetters Narcissus

Book:Essays and Letters Selected from the Writings of John Ruskin

Source: Essays and Letters Selected from the Writings of John Ruskin

“Another thing that escapes me is HOW to give substance to the forms. One day they look solid and 'real' and they seem to hinge upon each other and splinter and creak, fall with a thud to the bottom of the canvas and drag across the surface, and the next day they are like dust, all lightweight and just stuck there.”

Giving Looks Real Seems Form Fall Next One Day Bottom Surface Stuck Dust Substance Drag Canvas Next Day Dissatisfaction Hinges Splinters

Book:Paula Rego

Source: Paula Rego

“Ghostly above us in lamplight the towers gleam ... and after a while they will fall to dust and rain; or else we will tear them down with impatient hands; and hew rock out of the earth, and build them again.”

Hands Earth Fall Rocks Tears Rain Dust Towers Impatient Gleam

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“If a man offend a harmless, pure, and innocent person, the evil falls back upon that fool, like light dust thrown up against the wind.”

Ifs Men Persons Light Fall Evil Wind Fool Pure Innocent Dust Thrown Offense Fall Back Innocent Person

Book:The Dhammapada

Source: The Dhammapada

“... is there anything more unjust than to build gold and brass and iron on poor, well-meaning clay, -- and then blame the clay when the whole image falls into dust?”

Wells Whole Fall Poor Gold Blame Dust Iron Unjust Clay Brass

Book:Around Old Chester

Source: Around Old Chester

“My life is absolutely meaningless. When I consider the different periods into which it falls, it seems like the word Schnur in the dictionary, which means in the first place a string, in the second, a daughter-in-law. The only thing lacking is that the word Schnur should mean in the third place a camel, in the fourth, a dust-brush.”

Should Firsts Mean Different Seems Law Life Is Fall Periods Daughter Thirds Dust Strings Meaningless Fourth Lacking Brushes Dictionary In-laws Camels Third Place Daughter In Law

Book:Either/ Or

Source: Either/ Or

“The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred with dust and sweat; who strives valiantly; who errs and may fall again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming.”

Men May Faces Fall Effort He Man Errors Strive Credit Dust Sweat Daring Again And Again Strife Arena Shortcomings Daring Greatly Daring To Be Great

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“When the landscape buckles and jerks around, when a dust column of debris rises from the collapse of a block of buildings on bodies that could have been your own, when the staves of history fall awry and the barrel of time bursts apart, some turn to prayer, some to poetry: words in the memory, a stained book carried close to the body, the notebook scribbled by hand--a center of gravity.”

Source: What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)

“How old the world is! I walk between two eternities.... What is my fleeting existence in comparison with that decaying rock, that valley digging its channel ever deeper, that forest that is tottering and those great masses above my head about to fall? I see the marble of tombs crumbling into dust; and yet I don't want to die!”

World Want Two Dies Fall Walks Existence Rocks Mass Eternity Deeper Forests Dust Comparison Mortality Fleeting Tombs Marble Digging Wanting To Die Crumbling

Author:Denis Diderot

“When I'm taking my last breath, I want to look at how I used up the best of myself. How much did I sweat, push, pull, rip, fall, hit, crash, explode?...My dream is to be so well-used that in my last-half second, I just burst into dust.”

Source: Streb: How to Become an Extreme Action Hero

“Why, why are people all balls of bitter dust? Because they won't fall off the tree when they're ripe. They hang on to their old positions when the position is overpast, till they become infested with little worms and dry-rot.”

People Littles Fall Change Tree Position Balls Bitter Dust Dry Worms Ripe

Book:Women in Love

Source: Women in Love