Dross Quotes

Dross Quote of the day

What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage

What thou lov'st well is thy true heritage.

What thou lovest well remains.

The most divine light only shineth on those minds which are purged from all worldly dross and human uncleanliness.

Science not only purifies the religious impulse of the dross of its anthropomorphism but also contributes to a religious spiritualization of our understanding of life.

What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.

Friendship's an abstract of this noble flame, 'Tis love refin'd, and purged from all its dross, 'Tis next to angel's love, if not the same, As strong in passion is, though not so gross.

Men that hazard all Do it in hope of fair advantages: A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross.

What if we have more of the rough file, if we have less rust! Afflictions carry away nothing but the dross of sin.

At fifteen one is first beginning to realize that everything isn't money and power in this world, and is casting about for joys that do not turn to dross in one's hands.

But leave me to my beer! Gold is dross, love is loss, so if I gulp my sorrows down, or see them drown in foamy draughts of old nut-brown, then I do wear the crown, without the cross!

William Henry Flower the Anglican too praised evolution as a cleansing solvent, dissolving the dross which had 'encrusted' Christianity 'in the days of ignorance and superstition'.

A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross.

This discipline and rough treatment are a furnace to extract the silver from the dross. This testing purifies the gold by boiling the scum away.

If children are different from us, they are more spontaneous. Grown-up lives have become overlaid with dross.

The sense itself was I. I felt no dross or matter in my soul, no brims or borders, such as in a bowl we see. My essence was capacity.

Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us.

Openness of mind strengthens the truth in us and removes the dross from it, if there is any.

It is not until we have passed through the furnace that we are made to know how much dross there is in our composition.

What tender force, what dignity divine, what virtue consecrating every feature; around that neck what dross are gold and pearl!

We may scavenge the dross of the nation, we may shudder past bloody sod, But we thrill to the new revelation that we are parts of God.

Fiction, I believed, was the transmutation of experiential dross into linguistic gold. Fiction meant taking up whatever the world had abandoned by the road and making something beautiful out of it.

[The photograph] is fabricated out of the unfabricated dross of passing life (while paradoxically still trading on the indexical heft of that dross).

Men can be very stupid. We cease to value what we have until it's gone, and only then do we realize the gold we glimpsed in distant hills pales as dross compared to treasure we had in hand.

So vast, so limitless in capacity is man's imagination to disperse and burn away the rubble-dross of fact and probability, leaving only truth and dream.

At the devil's booth are all things sold. Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold.

My love admits no qualifying dross

the unconscious of an artist is her greatest treasure. It is what transmutes the dross of autobiography into the gold of myth.