"Man wants but little, nor that little long; How soon must he resign his very dust, Which frugal nature lent him for an hour!"
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"Why is it that when you wipe up dust its called dusting but when you wipe up a spill its not called spilling? Just something to think about."
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"I never wanted to be a public figure. I feel that I always have to dampen down people's expectations. They expect me to be an oracle, wave a magic wand, sprinkle some slow, sparkly dust on them, to make everything all right."
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"But when the dust has drunk the blood of men, no resurrection comes for one who's dead."
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"Beware when you take on the Church of God. Others have tried and have bitten the dust."
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"Anywhere where the humanity of people is undermined, anywhere where people are left in the dust, there we will find our cause."
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"[Requesting her epitaph to read this way:] Excuse my dust."
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"It was a very aged, ghostly place; the church had been built many hundreds of years ago, and had once had a convent or monastery attached; for arches in ruins, remains of oriel windows, and fragments of blackened walls, were yet standing-, while other portions of the old building, which had crumbled away and fallen down, were mingled with the churchyard earth and overgrown with grass, as if they too claimed a burying-place and sought to mix their ashes with the dust of men."
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"There was not one straight floor from the foundation to the roof; the ceilings were so fantastically clouded by smoke and dust, that old women might have told fortunes in them better than in grouts of tea."
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""My good fellow," retorted Mr. Boffin, "you have my word; and how you can have that, without my honour too, I don't know. I've sorted a lot of dust in my time, but I never knew the two things go into separate heaps.""
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"Should I not hear, as I lie down in dust, The horns of glory blowing above my burial?"
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"Flowers and pricker bushes grow out of the same dust."
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"He (man) is both dust of earth and breath of God."
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"But now we got weapons Of the chemical dust If fire them we're forced to Then fire them we must One push of the button And a shot the world wide And you never ask questions When God's on your side"
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"Blood moon risin' in a sky of black dust, tell me baby, who do you trust?"
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"The credit belongs to those of us who are actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood. We strive valiantly and sometimes there's the triumph of achievement but at the worst, we fail, but at least we fail while daring greatly." That has really changed my life. Profoundly changed my life."
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"I am always surprised when I see several cameras, a gaggle on lenses, filters, meters, et cetera, rattling around in a soft bag with a complement of refuse and dust. Sometimes the professional is the worst offender!"
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"Life brings what it brings. I might be young but I've learnt this: prepare for each blind corner with your strongest shoulder dropped, ready to smash through whatever is thrown at you next. Once the dust clears you will be standing tall, a champion, a victor. NOTHING will be able to knock you down once you've taken the biggest hits this life has to offer, so come on life, BRING IT!"
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"Compare the silent rose of the sun And rain, the blood-rose living in its smell, With this paper, this dust. That states the point."
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"THIS dust was once the Man, / Gentle, plain, just and resolute—under whose cautious hand, / Against the foulest crime in history known in any land or age, / Was saved the Union of These States."
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