Alain de Lille famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Do not hold everything as gold that shines like gold.
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An abstract style is always bad. Your sentences should be full of stones, metals, chairs, tables, animals, men, and women.
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Do not hold as gold all that shines as gold.
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Every creature in the world is like a book and a picture and a mirror for us
-- Alain de Lille
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If you want to shine like the sun, first burn like the sun.
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Words are freeborn, and not the vassals of the gruff tyrants of prose to do their bidding only. They have the same right to dance and sing as the dewdrops have to sparkle and the stars to shine.
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Look, how they scold me for all my loving and tippling, now that the silvery edges shine forth from my brow!
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if you want to shine like sun first you have to burn like it.
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The more my dream are fulfilled the quicklier they become realities losing their shine.
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I've seen enough things to know that if you just keep on going, if you turn the corner, the sun will be shining.
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Do not hold everything as gold that shines like gold.
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In my case dust has become Gold
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Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.
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All the manifested world of things and beings are projected by imagination upon the substratum which is the Eternal All pervading Vishnu , whose nature is Existence- Intelligence ; just as the different ornaments are all made out of the same gold.
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