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Letter "C" » clay
«Clay lies still, but blood's a rover; / Breath's a ware that will not keep. / Up, lad; when the journey's over / There'll be time enough for sleep.»
«Clay. It's rain, dead leaves, dust, all my dead ancestors. Stones that have been ground into sand. Mud. The whole cycle of life and death.»
«Conviction brings a silent, indefinable beauty into faces made of the commonest human clay; the devout worshiper at any shrine reflects something of its golden glow, even as the glory of a noble love shines like a sort of light from a woman's face»
Author: Honore de Balzac
(Novelist)
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Conviction
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clay, commonest, devout, even as, glow, golden glow, indefinable, reflects, shrine, worshiper, worshipers
«Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go into clay, and tread the morter, make strong the brickkiln.»
«And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken.»
«But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.»
«And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.»
«Behold, I am according to thy wish in God's stead: I also am formed out of the clay.»
«Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace that liquefies the gold, hardens the clay»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
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Affliction
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«Clay is molded to form a cup, But it is on its non-being that the utility of the cup depends. Doors and windows are cut out to make a room, But it is on its non-being that the utility of the room depends. Therefore turn being into advantage, and turn non-being into utility.»
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