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«We can search the world over, for peace, for love, and honor. We can look from now to eternity, for all we do not own. We can search until life is ending, then when life is nearly ore. We find we had what we needed, only now, its too hard to bear.»

Author: Donald D. Campbell | About: Eternity, Honor, Life, Love, Peace, World | Keywords: ending, ore, ores

«I believe that today more than ever a book should be sought after even if it has only one great page in it. We must search for fragments, splinters, toenails, anything that has ore in it, anything that is capable of resuscitating the body and the soul.»

Author: Henry Rollins (Actor, Author, Poet, Singer) | About: Music | Keywords: fragmented, fragmenting, fragments, ore, ores, page, resuscitated, sought, sought after, splinter, splintered, splintering, splinters

«Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.»

Author: Charles Caleb Colton | Keywords: bolt, bolted, brightest, calamity, darkest, elicit, elicited, eliciting, elicits, furnace, furnaces, hottest, ore, ores, produced, productive, purest, thunder

«It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.»

Author: Edgar Allan Poe (Critic, Editor, Poet, Writer) | About: Truth | Keywords: As of, in general, in particular, ore, ores, particular, richest, superficial

«The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm»

Author: Charles Caleb Colton | Keywords: brightest, darkest, elicit, elicited, eliciting, elicits, furnace, furnaces, hottest, ore, ores, produced, purest, thunderbolt, thunderbolts

«You might curb your magnanimity, and be more of an artist, and load every rift of your subject with ore.»

Author: John Keats (Poet) | Keywords: curb, curbed, curbing, curbs, load, ore, ores, rift, rifted

«So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, / And yet anon repairs his drooping head, / And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore, / Flames in the forehead of the morning sky.»

Author: John Milton (Historian, Poet, Scholar) | Keywords: anon, beams, droop, drooping, droops, flames, forehead, morning star, ore, ores, repairs, sinks, spangled, spangles, The Morning Star, tricks

«I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine /and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so /and now the dross is coming.»

Author: Lord Byron | Keywords: dross, fierce, ore, ores, well-done

«Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold»

Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | Keywords: educated, educates, gold, iron, ironed, ironing, irons, iron ore, limit, ore, ores

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