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«But what you minded most at our final parting was that in my poor rags -but was it not the costume of a beggar?- you couldn't see our tears as in a suit of armor.»
«Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time»
Author: John Donne | About: Love, Seasons, Time | Keywords: clime, climes, months, rag, rags, season
«But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: filthy, iniquities, rags, unclean
«Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: / For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: drowsiness, drunkard, eater, eaters, rags, riotous
«All our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: filthy, rags
«Do not join those who drink too much wine or gorge themselves on meat, for drunkards and gluttons become poor, and drowsiness clothes them in rags»
Author: Bible | Keywords: drowsiness, gluttons, gorge, gorged, rags
«FASHION, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey.A king there was who lost an eye In some excess of passion; And straight his courtiers all did try To follow the new fashion.Each dropped one eyelid when before The throne he ventured, thinking'Twould please the king. That monarch swore He'd slay them all for winking.What should they do? They were not hot To hazard such disaster; They dared not close an eye --dared not See better than their master.Seeing them lacrymose and glum, A leech consoled the weepers: He spread small rags with liquid gum And covered half their peepers.The court all wore the stuff, the flame Of royal anger dying. That's how court-plaster got its name Unless I'm greatly lying. --Naramy Oof»
«I consider the positions of kings and rulers as that of dust motes. I observe treasures of gold and gems as so many bricks and pebbles. I look upon the finest silken robes as tattered rags. I see myriad worlds of the universe as small seeds of fruit, and the greatest lake on Earth as a drop of oil on my foot.»
«And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm»
Author: John Dryden (Critic, Dramatist, Poet) | About: Virtue | Keywords: rags
«He who possesses the divine powers of the soul is a great being, be his place what it may. You may clothe him with rags, may immure him in a dungeon, may chain him to slavish tasks. But he is still great . . . .»

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