From the earliest times man has been engaged in a search for general rules whereby to turn the order of natural phenomena… — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
Openness of mind strengthens the truth in us and removes the dross from it, if there is any. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Yet this perhaps is what love does, or the memory of it; it sucks the life from the living, glorying body and… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
Children are tough, though we tend to think of them as fragile. They have to be tough. Childhood is not easy. We… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
What tender force, what dignity divine, what virtue consecrating every feature; around that neck what dross are gold and pearl! — Edward Young Copy Share Image
There is a tradition of television which isn't dross and stands up. Betjeman's programmes, which were made for 2/6d with one man… — Jonathan Meades Copy Share Image
[The photograph] is fabricated out of the unfabricated dross of passing life (while paradoxically still trading on the indexical heft of that… — Tod Papageorge Copy Share Image
At the devil's booth are all things sold. Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
If children are different from us, they are more spontaneous. Grown-up lives have become overlaid with dross. — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
If my efforts have led to greater success than usual, this is due, I believe, to the fact that during my wanderings… — Robert Koch Copy Share Image
It is not until we have passed through the furnace that we are made to know how much dross there is in… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
In the heroic effort of the handcart pioneers, we learn a great truth. All must pass through a refiner’s fire, and the… — James E. Faust 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
When a man makes utensils out of a metal which has been thoroughly cleansed of dross, the utensils will be excellent. You… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
But leave me to my beer! Gold is dross, love is loss, so if I gulp my sorrows down, or see them… — George Arnold Copy Share Image
Science not only purifies the religious impulse of the dross of its anthropomorphism but also contributes to a religious spiritualization of our… — Albert Einstein 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
William Henry Flower the Anglican too praised evolution as a cleansing solvent, dissolving the dross which had 'encrusted' Christianity 'in the days… — Adrian Desmond Copy Share Image
At last, Mythic feeling and conscious perception no longer confront each other as antagonists but as allies. Passionate nationalism is no longer… — Alfred Rosenberg 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
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
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
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
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