"What thou lovest well remains, the rest is……" — Ezra Pound

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• At fifteen one is first beginning to realize that everything isn't money and power in this world, and is casting… — Robert Benchley
• But leave me to my beer! Gold is dross, love is loss, so if I gulp my sorrows down, or… — George Arnold
• This discipline and rough treatment are a furnace to extract the silver from the dross. This testing purifies the gold… — Rumi
• If my efforts have led to greater success than usual, this is due, I believe, to the fact that during… — Robert Koch
• The disembodied soul does not part with Nature when it leaves the earth; life but, rather, it rises to a… — William Walker Atkinson
• As starving men crave a crust of bread, as choking men thirst for water, so do the righteous yearn for… — Bruce R. McConkie
• Children are tough, though we tend to think of them as fragile. They have to be tough. Childhood is not… — Maurice Sendak
• William Henry Flower the Anglican too praised evolution as a cleansing solvent, dissolving the dross which had 'encrusted' Christianity 'in… — Adrian Desmond
• When a man makes utensils out of a metal which has been thoroughly cleansed of dross, the utensils will be… — Gautama Buddha
• When does gold ore become gold? When it is put through a process of fire. So the human being during… — Bhai Sahib Singh
• Fiction, I believed, was the transmutation of experiential dross into linguistic gold. Fiction meant taking up whatever the world had… — Jonathan Franzen
• I also have in mind that seemingly wealthy, but most terribly impoverished class of all, who have accumulated dross, but… — Henry David Thoreau

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