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
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
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
As starving men crave a crust of bread, as choking men thirst for water, so do the righteous yearn for the Holy… — Bruce R. McConkie 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
Friendship's an abstract of this noble flame, 'Tis love refin'd, and purged from all its dross, 'Tis next to angel's love, if… — Katherine Philips Copy Share Image
So vast, so limitless in capacity is man's imagination to disperse and burn away the rubble-dross of fact and probability, leaving only… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
This discipline and rough treatment are a furnace to extract the silver from the dross. This testing purifies the gold by boiling… — Rumi Copy Share Image
I barely watch TV apart from the news. Most of it is rubbish. There's all this reality nonsense and dross. I think… — Larry Hagman Copy Share Image
A lot of suffering is just getting rid of dross in yourself, and lingering and hanging in the darkness is often -… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
Writing is alchemy. Dross becomes gold. Experience is transformed. Pain is changed. Suffering may become song. The ordinary or horrible is pushed… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
More people have more access to more readers for less money than ever before in history. It means a lot of dross;… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
After every happiness comes misery; they may be far apart or near. The more advanced the soul, the more quickly does one… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The disembodied soul does not part with Nature when it leaves the earth; life but, rather, it rises to a plane of… — William Walker Atkinson Copy Share Image
Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us; The beggar is taxed for a corner to die in, The priest hath… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Television in the 1960s & 70s had just as much dross and the programmes were a lot more tediously patronising than they… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
The day is not far distant when the man who dies leaving behind him millions of available wealth, which was free for… — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
Here then is a great # truth . In the # pain , the # agony , and the # heroic endeavors… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
It is perfectly delightful to take advantage of the conscientious labors of those who go through and through volume after volume, divide… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image