Dross Quotes

41 quotes by 36 authors

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 do… — Robert Benchley
But leave me to my beer! Gold is dross, love is loss, so if I gulp my sorrows down, or see them drown in foamy… — George Arnold
This discipline and rough treatment are a furnace to extract the silver from the dross. This testing purifies the gold by boiling the scum away. — Rumi
If my efforts have led to greater success than usual, this is due, I believe, to the fact that during my wanderings in the field… — Robert Koch
The disembodied soul does not part with Nature when it leaves the earth; life but, rather, it rises to a plane of Nature which is… — William Walker Atkinson
As starving men crave a crust of bread, as choking men thirst for water, so do the righteous yearn for the Holy Ghost. The Holy… — Bruce R. McConkie
Children are tough, though we tend to think of them as fragile. They have to be tough. Childhood is not easy. We sentimentalize children, but… — Maurice Sendak
William Henry Flower the Anglican too praised evolution as a cleansing solvent, dissolving the dross which had 'encrusted' Christianity 'in the days of ignorance and… — Adrian Desmond
When a man makes utensils out of a metal which has been thoroughly cleansed of dross, the utensils will be excellent. You monks, who wish… — Gautama Buddha
When does gold ore become gold? When it is put through a process of fire. So the human being during the training becomes as pure… — Bhai Sahib Singh
Fiction, I believed, was the transmutation of experiential dross into linguistic gold. Fiction meant taking up whatever the world had abandoned by the road and… — Jonathan Franzen
I also have in mind that seemingly wealthy, but most terribly impoverished class of all, who have accumulated dross, but know not how to use… — Henry David Thoreau
A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross. — William Shakespeare
It is not until we have passed through the furnace that we are made to know how much dross there is in our composition. — Charles Caleb Colton
Here then is a great #â€Ž truth . In the #â€Ž pain , the #â€Ž agony , and the #â€Ž heroic endeavors of life, we… — James E. Faust
Science not only purifies the religious impulse of the dross of its anthropomorphism but also contributes to a religious spiritualization of our understanding of life. — Albert Einstein
My love admits no qualifying 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 thy… — Ezra Pound
After every happiness comes misery; they may be far apart or near. The more advanced the soul, the more quickly does one follow the other.… — Swami Vivekananda
Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is… — Carl Andre

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