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Letter "A" » ashes
«Here beneath rest the ashes of a man who was in habit of always postponing everything till the day after. However, at last he improved and really died Jan 31 1972.»
Author: Fritiof Nilsson Piraten
| About:
Death and dying
| Keywords:
ashes, improved, Jan, postponing, The Ashes, The Day After
«Fashion is like the ashes left behind by the uniquely shaped flames of the fire, the trace alone revealing that a fire actually took place.»
Author: Paul de Man
| About:
Fashion
| Keywords:
ashes, flames, Left Behind, revealing, shaped, The Ashes, trace, uniquely
«Abruptly the poker of memory stirs the ashes of recollection and uncovers a forgotten ember, still smoldering down there, still hot, still glowing, still red as red.»
Author: William Manchester
(Historian, Novelist)
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abruptly, ashes, ember, embers, glowing, poker, pokers, recollection, red hot, smoldering, stirs, The Ashes, uncovering, uncovers
«Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them»
«As the blazing fire reduces wood to ashes, similarly, the fire of Self-knowledge reduces all Karma to ashes.»
«A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction»
«Brass is polished by ashes; copper is cleaned by tamarind; a woman, by her menses; and a river by its flow.»
Author: Chanakya
(Politician, strategist, Writer)
| Keywords:
ashes, coppers, flowed, polishes, tamarinds
«Glory paid to our ashes comes too late»
«Glory arrives too late when it comes only to one's ashes»
«Give the church a place in the Constitution, let her touch once more the sword of power, and the priceless fruit of all ages will turn to ashes on the lips of men»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
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Church
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ages, all ages, ashes, Church A, constitution, once more, priceless, The Church, The Sword, turn to
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