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“Moss is inconceivably strong. Moss eats stone; scarcely anything, in return, eats moss. Moss dines upon boulders, slowly but devastatingly, in a meal that lasts for centuries. Given enough time, a colony of moss can turn a cliff into gravel, and turn that gravel into topsoil.”

Enough Lasts Turns Strong Given Century Return Stones Meals Biology Cliffs Enough Time Colony Moss Dine Boulders Gravel Topsoil

Book:The Signature of All Things

Source: The Signature of All Things

“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

“There have been many stones on my path, which frequently made me trip and give up, however I keep telling myself this is only momentary, I will get back up. Since it's our responsibility to return back the love that we have received from so many. That is why no matter how difficult or tough it becomes I cannot let go. And that is why no matter how difficult it becomes we are able to gain strength.”

Giving Has Beens Made Matter Able Difficult Responsibility Path Return Letting Go Giving Up Tough Gains Stones Get Back Momentary Return Back

Author:Kwon Yuri

“Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.”

Men Break Greater Violence Return Morality Stones Bones Revenge Hills Rolling Break Up Rolling Stones Best Revenge Exacting Revenge

Book:The Beauties of J. Taylor: Selected from His Works with an Essay on His Life and Writings

Source: The Beauties of J. Taylor: Selected from His Works with an Essay on His Life and Writings

“The King beneath the mountains, The King of carven stone, The lord of silver fountains Shall come into his own! His crown shall be upholden, His harp shall be restrung, His halls shall echo golden To songs of yore re-sung. The woods shall wave on mountains. And grass beneath the sun; His wealth shall flow in fountains And the rivers golden run. The streams shall run in gladness, The lakes shall shine and burn, And sorrow fail and sadness At the Mountain-king’s return!”

“When the Dark comes rising six shall turn it back; Three from the circle, three from the track; Wood, bronze, iron; Water, fire, stone; Five will return and one go alone. Iron for the birthday; bronze carried long; Wood from the burning; stone out of song; Fire in the candle ring; water from the thaw; Six signs the circle and the grail gone before. Fire on the mountain shall find the harp of gold Played to wake the sleepers, oldest of old. Power from the Green Witch, lost beneath the sea. All shall find the Light at last, silver on the tree.”

Source: The Dark Is Rising: Movie Tie-in Edition

“He lost his Self a thousand times and for days on end he dwelt in non-being. But although the paths took him away from Self, in the end they always led back to it. Although Siddhartha fled from the Self a thousand times, dwelt in nothing, dwelt in animal and stone, the return was inevitable; the hour was inevitable when he would again find himself in sunshine or in moonlight, in shadow or in rain, and was again Self and Siddhartha, again felt the torment of the onerous life cycle.”

Ends Self Lost Felt Hours Animal Path Return Thousand Shadow Rain Stones Inevitable Sunshine Cycles Torment Moonlight Siddhartha

Author:Hermann Hesse

“Cold as winter, strong as stone; She faced the darkness all alone. A silver goddess; a reflection. A mirage; a recollection. No return; no turning back. The past is gone, the future, black. Serpents gather in their nest, And she stands above the rest. Shadows hunt; she hunts the shadow. The moon is risen; she stands below. She views her world through the eyes of others. Black and white; there are no colors, As she looks down upon a shattered youth. A shattered mirror shows a shattered truth.”

“With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish 'twere done. Not till the hours of light return All we have built do we discern.”

Life Long Done Hands Light Wish Hours Feet Return Bears Built Stones Lays Burden Heat Bleeding Long Day

Author:Matthew Arnold

“The Dark Ages may return-the Stone Age may return on the gleaming wings of Science; and what might now shower immeasureable material blessings upon mankind may even bring about its total destruction. Beware! I say. Time may be short. Referring to the discovery of atomic energy.”

Source: The Sinews of Peace: Post-war Speeches