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• Let wealth come in by comely thrift,
  And not by any sordid shift;
  'T is haste
  Makes waste;
  Extremes have still their fault.
  Who gripes too hard the dry and slipp'ry sand,
  Holds none at all, or little, in his hand.

  Robert Herrick

  Hands, Haste Makes Waste, Dry

  Robert Herrick (1852). “Hesperides; or, Works both human and divine”, p.206

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• The Sahara was a spectacle as alive as the sea. The tints of the dunes changed according to the time of day and the angle of the light: golden as apricots from far off, when we drove close to them they turned to freshly made butter; behind us they grew pink; from sand to rock, the materials of which the desert was made varied as much as its tints.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Light, Rocks, Sea

  Simone de Beauvoir (1965). “Force of circumstance”, G.P. Putnam's Sons

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• The first class of readers may be compared to an hour-glass, their reading being as the sand; it runs in and runs out, and leaves not a vestige behind. A second class resembles a sponge, which imbibes everything, and returns it in nearly the same state, only a little dirtier. A third class is like a jelly-bag, which allows all that is pure to pass away, and retains only the refuse and dregs. The fourth class may be compared to the slave of Golconda, who, casting aside all that is worthless, preserves only the pure gems.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Running, Reading, Class

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• One thought includes all thought, in the sense that a grain of sand includes the universe.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Grains Of Sand, Grain, Universe

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1836). “Letters, Conversations and Recollections”, p.100

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• By the way, did you ever realize that if Moses would have turned right instead of left, we'd have had the oil, the Arabs would have had the sand?

  Golda Meir

  Funny, Humorous, Oil

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• We sack, we ransack to the utmost sands
  Of native kingdoms, and of foreign lands:
  We travel sea and soil; we pry, and prowl,
  We progress, and we prog from pole to pole.

  Francis Quarles

  Travel, Sea, Land

  Francis Quarles (1857). “Emblems: Divine and Moral”, p.82

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• ... nature photographs downright bore me for some reason or other. I think: 'Oh, yes. Look at that sand dune. What of it?'

  Walker Evans

  Photography, Thinking, Looks

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• When with care we have raised an imaginary treasure of happiness, we find at last that the materials of the structure are frail and perishing, and the foundation itself is laid in the sand.

  Samuel Rogers

  Foundation, Treasure, Care

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• the feet should have more of the acquaintance of earth, and know more of flowers, freshness, cool brooks, wild thyme, and salt sand than does anything else about us. ... It is only the entirely unshod that have lively feet.

  Alice Meynell

  Flower, Feet, Should Have

  Alice Meynell (2013). “The Essential Alice Meynell Collection”, p.451, eBookIt.com

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• From Greenland's icy mountains,
  From India's coral strand,
  Where Afric's sunny fountains
  Roll down their golden sand;
  From many an ancient river,
  From many a palmy plain,
  They call us to deliver
  Their land from error's chain.

  Reginald Heber

  Errors, Land, Rivers

  Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans, Reginald Heber (1834). “The Poetical Works of Hemans, Heber and Pollok: Complete in One Volume”, p.26

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• A black-crowned night heron stood on an apron of wet sand, looking across the channel. The feather plume at the back of his head lifted in a faint breeze. Out there the channel churned its cyclonic eddies counterclockwise. Schools of anchovies, halibut, and sea bass came and went: silver flashes, small storms that well up from the inside of the sea but are short-lived, like lightning.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Ocean, School, Night

  Gretel Ehrlich (1995). “A Match to the Heart: One Woman's Story of Being Struck By Lightning”, p.67, Penguin

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• ... politics are nothing but sand and gravel: it is art and life that feed us until we die. Everything else is ambition, hysteria or hatred.

  Louise Bogan

  Art, Ambition, Hysteria

  Louise Bogan (1973). “What the woman lived: selected letters of Louise Bogan, 1920-1970”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• Like sand on the beach, the brain bears the footprints of the decisions we have made, the skills we have learned, the actions we have taken.

  Sharon Begley

  Beach, Taken, Skills

  Sharon Begley (2008). “Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain: How a New Science Reveals Our Extraordinary Potential to Transform Ourselves”, p.9, Ballantine Books

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• Fish have water, the bushmen of the Kalahari have sand, and Houstonians have interior décor.

  Simon Hoggart

  Texas, Water, Bushmen

  Simon Hoggart (1990). “America: A User's Guide”, HarperCollins

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• From the foot of the pyramids I contemplate twenty centuries, buried in the sand. ... I came here to hold on to fleeting life, and I see all about me only death. ... I write this, not quite knowing what I'm saying, but I dry the ink with the dust of Egyptian queens.

  Rachel

  Queens, Writing, Dust

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• I have a superstition that if I talk about plot, it's like letting sand out of a hole in the bottom of a bag.

  Shirley Hazzard

  Plot, Bags, Superstitions

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• The ephemeral nature of live performance is the part I love most - it's a monk's sand painting, carefully constructed, then wiped away in an instant.

  Rosanne Cash

  Ephemeral, Painting, Monk

  Rosanne Cash (2010). “Composed: A Memoir”, p.133, Penguin

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• He ploughs the waves, sows the sand, and hopes to gather the wind in a net, who places his hopes on the heart of a woman.
  [It., Ne l'onde solca, e ne l'arena semina,
  E'l vago vento spera in rete acogliere
  Chi sue speranze fonda in cor di femina.]

  Jacopo Sannazaro

  Women, Heart, Wind

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• What a rope of sand we are without a leader.

  Marjorie Bowen

  Leadership, Leader, Rope

  Marjorie Bowen (1907). “The Master of Stair”

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• Few footprints of the great remain in the sand before the ever-flowing tide. Long ago it washed out Homer's. Curiosity follows him in vain; Greece and Asia perplex us with a rival Stratford-upon-Avon. The rank of Aristophanes is only conjectured from his gift to two poor players in Athens. The age made no sign when Shakespeare, its noblest son, passed away.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Son, Player, Greatness

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• Junkies find veins in their toes when the veins in their arms collapse. Developing tars sands is the equivalent.

  Al Gore

  Veins, Arms, Toes

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• As soon as the seal was clear of the water, it reared up and its skin slipped down to the sand. What had been a seal was a white-skinned boy

  George Mackay Brown

  Boys, White, Water

  George Mackay Brown (1977). “Pictures in the cave”

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• The temptation is not here, where you are reading about it or praying about it. It is down in your shop, among bales and boxes, ten-penny nails, and sand-paper.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Reading, Temptation, Pennies

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• The sand swallows burst out of their scupper holes in the bluffs and out over the transparent drown of the water, back again to the white, to the brown, to the black, from moving to stock-still sand waves and water-worked woods and roots that hugged and twisted in the sun.

  Saul Bellow

  Moving, Roots, White

  Saul Bellow (1984). “The Adventures of Augie March”

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• Lily Brown writes with and against things in poems that are coiled up tight as springs (or snakes). A believer in the power of the line, she writes, 'I think the plastics/and sink them' then 'Where is the sand/man hiding the dirt.' These terse, biting poems will make you look around and wonder.

  Rae Armantrout

  Spring, Writing, Men

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