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“Great virtues may draw attention from defects, they cannot sanctify them. A pebble surrounded by diamonds remains a common stone, and a diamond surrounded by pebbles is still a gem.”

May Stills Common Attention Virtue Draws Stones Remains Diamond Defects Gems Pebbles Sanctify

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“The stones and trees, insensible to time, / Nor age nor wrinkle on their front are seen; / If Winter come, and greenness then do fade / A Spring returns, and they more youthful made; / But man grows old, lies down, remains where once he's laid.”

Ifs Men Made Age Death Lying Grows Tree Fronts Return Spring Stones Remains Winter Fades Wrinkles Insensible

Book:The Works of Anne Bradstreet

Source: The Works of Anne Bradstreet

“You can tell by looking at most people that the world remains a stone to them and a closed door.”

People World Doors Ignorance Stones Remains Closed Doors

Book:Ripening: Selected Work

Source: Ripening: Selected Work

“Stone and sea are deep in life Two unalterable symbols of the world Permanence at rest And permanence in motion Participants in the power that remains”

World Two Sea Stones Remains Symbols Participants Permanence

Book:Lord Foul's Bane

Source: Lord Foul's Bane

“Now, helpless in the hollow of An unarmorial age, a trough Of smoke in slow suspended skeins Above their scrap of history, Only an attitude remains: Time has transfigured them into Untruth. The stone finality They hardly meant has come to be Their final blazon, and to prove Our almost-instinct almost true: What will survive of us is love.”

Age Attitude Prove Stones Remains Instinct Finals Smoke Helpless Hollow Scrap Suspended Untruth Finality Trough

Author:Philip Larkin