Ashes Quotes
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And now that thou art lying, my dear old Carian guest, A handful of grey ashes, long, long ago at rest, Still are thy pleasant voices, thy nightingales awake; For Death, he taketh all away, but them he cannot take.
Callimachus
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The whites have resolved to destroy our liberty and have therefore brought a force commensurate to their intentions. The Cape, after a proper resistance, has fallen into their hands, but the enemy found only a town and plain in ashes; the forts were blown up, and all was burnt.
Toussaint Louverture
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Day of wrath, that day of burning, Seer and Sibyl speak concerning, All the world to ashes turning.
Abraham Coles
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The central fire is desire, and all the powers of our being are given us to see, to fight for, and to win the object of our desire. Quench that fire and man turns to ashes.
Basil W. Maturin
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I speak of the old Japan, because out of the ashes of the old Japan there has risen a new Japan.
Shigeru Yoshida
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Apocalypse has come and gone. We're just grubbing in the ashes.
Samuel R. Delany
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White as ash, her face, but ashes hold the phantoms of fires.
Esther M. Friesner
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The bread I eat in London, is a deleterious paste, mixed up with chalk, alum, and bone ashes: insipid to the taste, and destructive to the constitution.
Tobias Smollett
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What's memory but the ash That chokes our fires that have begun to sink?
William Butler Yeats
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You can flush my ashes down the toilet, for all I care.
Carolyn Heilbrun
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The sand of the desert of Yondo is not as the sand of other deserts; for Yondo lies nearest of all to the world’s rim; and strange winds, blowing from a gulf no astronomer may hope to fathom, have sown its ruinous fields with the grey dust of corroding planets, the black ashes of extinguished suns.
Clark Ashton Smith
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Since the start of the Ashes I have had a hectic workload. I've played almost every game, but I'm thinking that after South Africa and the Bangladesh series I can clock off for two or three months. It's like Friday afternoon for a guy who goes to work all week.
Brett Lee
