Dross Quotes

41 quotes by 36 authors

Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us; The beggar is taxed for a corner to die in, The priest hath his fee who… — James Russell Lowell
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 lesson… — Paramahansa Yogananda
It is perfectly delightful to take advantage of the conscientious labors of those who go through and through volume after volume, divide with infinite patience… — Robert Green Ingersoll
A lot of suffering is just getting rid of dross in yourself, and lingering and hanging in the darkness is often - I say this… — John O'Donohue
If children are different from us, they are more spontaneous. Grown-up lives have become overlaid with dross. — Maurice Sendak
It is a kind and wise arrangement of Providence that weaves our sorrows into the elements of character and that all the disappointments, and conflicts,… — William Morley Punshon
I barely watch TV apart from the news. Most of it is rubbish. There's all this reality nonsense and dross. I think there's a market… — Larry Hagman
More people have more access to more readers for less money than ever before in history. It means a lot of dross; but it means… — John Hodgman
What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross. — Paracelsus
At the devil's booth are all things sold. Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold. — James Russell Lowell
The earth will never be the same again Rock, water, tree, iron, share this greif As distant stars participate in the pain. A candle snuffed,… — Madeleine L'Engle
What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lovâ€™st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lovâ€™st well is thy… — Ezra Pound
The scholar only knows how dear these silent, yet eloquent, companions of pure thoughts and innocent hours become in the season of adversity. When all… — Washington Irving
Men can be very stupid. We cease to value what we have until it's gone, and only then do we realize the gold we glimpsed… — Ann Aguirre
In the heroic effort of the handcart pioneers, we learn a great truth. All must pass through a refinerâ€™s fire, and the insignificant and unimportant… — James E. Faust
The day is not far distant when the man who dies leaving behind him millions of available wealth, which was free for him to administer… — Andrew Carnegie
There are only three indispensable things: the audience, the actor and the author. The rest is dross. — Peter O'Toole
In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross… — Samuel E. Morison
My name is Mary and my ex-boyfriend dumped me 8 months ago after I caught him of having an affair with someone else and insulting… — Mary
This sublime love, being, by an intimate conjunction with its object, thoroughly refined from all base dross of selfishness and interest, nobly begets a perfect… — Robert Boyle

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