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“Rap, rap! upon the well-worn stone, How falls the polished hammer! Rap, rap! the measured sound has grown A quick and merry clamor. Now shape the sole! now deftly curl The glassy vamp around it, And bless the while the bright-eyed girl Whose gentle fingers bound it!”

Source: Songs of Labor and Reform From Volume III., the Works of Whittier: Anti-Slavery Poems and Songs of Labor and Reform

“By constant dripping, water hollows stone, A signet-ring from use alone grows thin, And the curved plowshare by soft earth is worn.”

Use Earth Grows Water Practice Stones Constant Rings Worn Dripping Dripping Water

Author:Ovid

“Let firm, well hammer'd soles protect thy feet Through freezing snows, and rains, and soaking sleet; Should the big last extend the shoe too wide, Each stone will wrench the unwary step aside; The sudden turn may stretch the swelling vein, The cracking joint unhinge, or ankle sprain; And when too short the modish shoes are worn, You'll judge the seasons by your shooting corn.”

Source: Poetry and prose of John Gay

“I interviewed Matt [Stone] and Trey [Parker], actually, and I got to ask them questions. I love them deeply because they appeared dressed as J-Lo and someone else [who had worn the same scandalous dresses the year before at the Oscars]. They confessed they were on acid.”

Years Asks Stones Dresses Worn Oscars Acid Scandalous

Author:Eric Idle

“I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water.”

Way Love Years Pain Faces Water Loses Ability Stones Worn Washing Carving Washing Away

Book:The Joy Luck Club

Source: The Joy Luck Club

“Prophet may you be! If I be false, or swerve a hair from truth, when time is old and hath forgot itself, when waterdrops have worn the stones of Troy, and blind oblivion swallowed cities up, and mighty states characterless are grated to dusty nothing, yet let memory, from false to false, among false maids in love, upbraid my falsehood!”

Ifs May States Memories Cities Hair Stones Blind Prophet Falsehood Worn Oblivion Maids Swerve Upbraid Characterless

Book:Arden Shakespeare Complete Works

Source: Arden Shakespeare Complete Works

“And yet every so often, the heart of America, shuddering with indignation, sends a nervous spasm through the gentle back of the Andes, and tumultuous shock waves assault the surface of the land. Three times the cuppola of proud Santo Domingo has collapsed from on high to the rhythm of broken bones and its worn walls have opened and fallen too. But the foundations they rest on are unmoved, the great blocks of the Temple of the Sun exhibit their gray stone indifferently; however colossal the disaster befalling its oppressor, not one of its huge rocks shifts from its place.”

“If a few minutes of suffering could make me so angry, what would years of it do? Even a stone can be worn down with enough rain.”

Ifs Years Enough Suffering Minutes Rain Stones Angry Worn Memories Of A Geisha

Book:Memoirs Of A Geisha

Source: Memoirs Of A Geisha

“Even stone can be worn down with enough rain.”

Enough Rain Stones Worn Memories Of A Geisha

Book:Memoirs Of A Geisha

Source: Memoirs Of A Geisha

“I had a vague memory of being that ridiculous at one time. Let he who hath never worn parachute pants cast the first stone.”

Firsts Memories Stones Casts Ridiculous One Time Pants Worn Vague Parachutes

Book:Death Masks: Book five of The Dresden Files

Source: Death Masks: Book five of The Dresden Files

“Couldn't the wrong sort of living turn anyone mean? I remembered very well that one day back in Yoroido, a boy pushed me into a thorn bush near the pond. By the time I clawed my way out I was mad enough to bite through wood. If a few minutes of suffering could make me so angry, what would years of it do? Even stone can be worn down with enough rain.”

Ifs Way Years Wells Mean Enough Suffering Turns Boys Minutes One Day Rain Stones Angry Mad Woods My Way Remembered Bites Worn Ponds

Author:Arthur Golden

“I have something for you," he said. He dug into his pocket and brought out something, which he pressed into her hand. It was a gray stone, slightly uneven, worn to smoothness in spots. "Huh," said Clary, turning it over in her fingers. "You know, when most girls say they want a big rock, they don't mean, you know, literally a big rock.”

Knows Want Mean Said Hands Bigs Girl Rocks Stones Fingers Spots Pockets Gray Worn

Book:Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass

Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass

“If you should look for this place after a handful of lifetimes: Perhaps of my planted forest a few May stand yet, dark-leaved Australians or the coast cypress, haggard With storm-drift; but fire and the axe are devils. Look for foundations of sea-worn granite, my fingers had the art To make stone love stone, you will find some remnant.”

Ifs Should Looks May Art Home Dark Fire Sea Devil Stones Foundation Lifetime Fingers Storm Forests Worn Coast One Love Handful Remnants Granite Haggard Cypresses

Book:The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers

Source: The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers