"A golden mind stoops not to shows of…" — William Shakespeare
"A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross."
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3,182 Quotes by William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare has 3,182 quotes on this site.
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Come, woo me, woo me, for now I am in a holiday humor, and like enough to consent.
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Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.
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Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.
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People usually are the happiest at home.
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In delay there lies no plenty.
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Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggary.
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Grief makes one hour ten.
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Were kisses all the joys in bed, One woman would another wed.
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I understand thy kisses, and thou mine, And that's a feeling disputation.
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He took the bride about the neck and kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack that at the parting…
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O, Thou hast damnable iteration; and art, indeed, able to corrupt a saint.
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There live not three good men unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and grows old.
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More Dross Quotes
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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
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But leave me to my beer! Gold is dross, love is loss, so if I gulp my sorrows down, or…
— George Arnold
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This discipline and rough treatment are a furnace to extract the silver from the dross. This testing purifies the gold…
— Rumi
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If my efforts have led to greater success than usual, this is due, I believe, to the fact that during…
— Robert Koch
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The disembodied soul does not part with Nature when it leaves the earth; life but, rather, it rises to a…
— William Walker Atkinson
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As starving men crave a crust of bread, as choking men thirst for water, so do the righteous yearn for…
— Bruce R. McConkie
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Children are tough, though we tend to think of them as fragile. They have to be tough. Childhood is not…
— Maurice Sendak
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William Henry Flower the Anglican too praised evolution as a cleansing solvent, dissolving the dross which had 'encrusted' Christianity 'in…
— Adrian Desmond
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When a man makes utensils out of a metal which has been thoroughly cleansed of dross, the utensils will be…
— Gautama Buddha
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When does gold ore become gold? When it is put through a process of fire. So the human being during…
— Bhai Sahib Singh
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Fiction, I believed, was the transmutation of experiential dross into linguistic gold. Fiction meant taking up whatever the world had…
— Jonathan Franzen
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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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