Kings sometimes beget dross. [103]

It is hard to know what other way men can come to truth, to lay hold of it, if they do not dig and…

— John Locke

What if we have more of the rough file, if we have less rust! Afflictions carry away nothing but the dross of sin.

— Thomas Watson

'T is heaven alone that is given away; 'T is only God may be had for the asking.

— James Russell Lowell

The man who dies leaving behind him millions of available wealth, which was his to administer during his life, will pass away unwept, unhonoured…

— Andrew Carnegie

At fifteen one is first beginning to realize that everything isn't money and power in this world, and is casting about for joys that…

— Robert Benchley

You cannot make steel until you have made the iron white-hot in fire. It is not meant for harm. Trouble and disease have a…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

The sense itself was I. I felt no dross or matter in my soul, no brims or borders, such as in a bowl we…

— Thomas Traherne

We may scavenge the dross of the nation, we may shudder past bloody sod, But we thrill to the new revelation that we are…

— Robert Haven Schauffler

Men that hazard all Do it in hope of fair advantages: A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross.

— William Shakespeare

What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov'st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov'st well is…

— Ezra Pound

Fiction, I believed, was the transmutation of experiential dross into linguistic gold. Fiction meant taking up whatever the world had abandoned by the road…

— Jonathan Franzen

The scholar only knows how dear these silent, yet eloquent, companions of pure thoughts and innocent hours become in the season of adversity. When…

— Washington Irving

A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross.

— William Shakespeare

I also have in mind that seemingly wealthy, but most terribly impoverished class of all, who have accumulated dross, but know not how to…

— Henry David Thoreau

It is a kind and wise arrangement of Providence that weaves our sorrows into the elements of character and that all the disappointments, and…

— William Morley Punshon