Elizabeth Chadwick Quotes
... all his ambitions were dust in his grave. It all came down to dust in the end.
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Historical science is being left in the dust.
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Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.
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There is not one piece of cosmic dust that is outside the scope of God's sovereign providence.
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Dust to dust, ashes to ashes. Halleluiah amen, you are dismissed.
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When there's dust missing here or there, it's because someone has touched my things. I see immediately someone has been there. And it's because I live constantly with dust, in dust, that I prefer to wear gray suits, the only color on which it leaves no trace.
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There's no beauty without poignancy and there's no poignancy without the feeling that it's going, men, names, books, houses--bound for dust--mortal--
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A man's life is of more value than a woman's. It has larger issues, wider scope, greater ambitions. Our lives revolve in curves of emotions. It is upon lines of intellect that a man's life progresses. I have just learnt this, and much else with it, from Lord Goring. And I will not spoil your life for you, nor see you spoil it as a sacrifice to me, a useless sacrifice.
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Music is supposed to wash away the dust of everyday life.
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Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust.
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We are suffering today from a species of Christianity as dry as dust, as cold as ice, as pale as a corpse, and as dead as King Tut. We are suffering not from a lack of correct heads but of consumed hearts.
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You have to remember where all this dust is coming from, ... There is a political advantage to the opposition to have this happen.
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Of all crimes the worst Is to steal the glory From the great and brave, Even more accursed Than to rob the grave.
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Close your mouth, block off your senses, blunt your sharpness, untie your knots, soften your glare, settle your dust. This is the primal identity.
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The True Person governs by emptying the heart of desire and filling the belly with food, weakening ambitions and strengthening bones.
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One must become as humble as the dust before he can discover truth.
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The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust.
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He was enormously manipulative, very ambitious and not always truthful.
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For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.
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The Loneliness One dare not sound -- And would as soon surmise AS in its Grave go plumbing To ascertain the size -- The Loneliness whose worst alarm Is lest itself should see -- And perish from before itself For just a scrutiny -- The Horror not to be surveyed -- But skirted in the Dark -- With Consciousness suspended -- And Being under Lock -- I fear me this -- is Loneliness -- The Maker of the soul Its Caverns and its Corridors Illuminate -- or seal
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As ill-luck would have it.
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However roguish a man may be, he always loves to deal with an honest man.
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Your emotions are nothing but biochemical storms in your brain and you are in control of them at any point in time.
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What a person loves at 20 may seem stupid at 35. That doesn't mean the book was stupid, it means that the time when it spoke to the reader is past. So . . . I'm cautious about rereading favorite books. I hate to spoil the good feelings they created. Keeping the good feelings is more important than rereading the book. Moving on is a good thing.
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... all his ambitions were dust in his grave. It all came down to dust in the end.
