It is hard to know what other way men can come to truth, to lay hold of it, if they do not… — John Locke Copy Share Image
I also have in mind that seemingly wealthy, but most terribly impoverished class of all, who have accumulated dross, but know not… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The scholar only knows how dear these silent, yet eloquent, companions of pure thoughts and innocent hours become in the season of… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Fiction, I believed, was the transmutation of experiential dross into linguistic gold. Fiction meant taking up whatever the world had abandoned by… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov'st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov'st… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Men that hazard all Do it in hope of fair advantages: A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
We may scavenge the dross of the nation, we may shudder past bloody sod, But we thrill to the new revelation that… — Robert Haven Schauffler Copy Share Image
The sense itself was I. I felt no dross or matter in my soul, no brims or borders, such as in a… — Thomas Traherne Copy Share Image
You cannot make steel until you have made the iron white-hot in fire. It is not meant for harm. Trouble and disease… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
At fifteen one is first beginning to realize that everything isn't money and power in this world, and is casting about for… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
The man who dies leaving behind him millions of available wealth, which was his to administer during his life, will pass away… — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
'T is heaven alone that is given away; 'T is only God may be had for the asking. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
What if we have more of the rough file, if we have less rust! Afflictions carry away nothing but the dross of… — Thomas Watson Copy Share Image
It is a kind and wise arrangement of Providence that weaves our sorrows into the elements of character and that all the… — William Morley Punshon Copy Share Image
The most divine light only shineth on those minds which are purged from all worldly dross and human uncleanliness. — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a… — Carl Andre Copy Share Image
On the whole, however, the critic is far less of a professional faultfinder than is sometimes imagined. He is first of all… — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share Image
It is the Lord's kindness that he will take the scum off us in the fire. Who know how needful winnowing is… — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
Men can be very stupid. We cease to value what we have until it's gone, and only then do we realize the… — Ann Aguirre Copy Share Image
When does gold ore become gold? When it is put through a process of fire. So the human being during the training… — Bhai Sahib Singh Copy Share Image
The earth will never be the same again Rock, water, tree, iron, share this greif As distant stars participate in the pain.… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Facts are the mere dross of history. It is from the abstract truth which interpenetrates them, and lies latent among them, like… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
the unconscious of an artist is her greatest treasure. It is what transmutes the dross of autobiography into the gold of myth. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
