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dust

«Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust; in sure and certain hope of the Resurrection into eternal life»
«Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.»
«Clay. It's rain, dead leaves, dust, all my dead ancestors. Stones that have been ground into sand. Mud. The whole cycle of life and death.»
«Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.»
«First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too»
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley (Poet) | Keywords: claims, debt, due, dust
«And I will show you something different from either your shadow at morning striding behind you or your shadow at evening rising to meet you; I will show you fear in a handful of dust.»
«Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.»
«Excuse my dust»
Author: Dorothy Parker (Poet, Writer) | Keywords: dust, excuse
«Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established.»
«A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life.»