Barnabe Barnes quotes

Barnabe Barnes quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.”
-- Barnabe Barnes

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“Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold.”
-- Barnabe Barnes

Source : Barnabe Barnes (1593). “Parthenophil and Parthenophe: Sonnets, madrigals, elegies, and odes”

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“I cannot understand how any man or woman can believe in the Lord's coming and not be a missionary, or at least committed to the work of missions with every power of his being.”

Source : A. B. Simpson (1987). “Missionary Messages: For a Church that Needs to Hear”, p.23, Moody Publishers
“The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.”
“We are all made from star dust and we will all return to star dust, like a cosmic palindrome.”

Source : A. S. King (2014). “Glory O'Brien's History of the Future”, p.80, Hachette UK
“If at first you don't succeed/You can dust it off and try again/Dust yourself off and try again.”

Source : Song: Try Again, Album: I Care 4 U
“I didn't make my first solo record until 1981 so I don't have any 60â€²s or 70â€²s recordings but I am working on a large boxed set called DUST to be released next year, the 20th anniversary of my first solo record.”
“After more than two decades of trying to destroy the firearms rights of more than 80 million law-abiding American gun owners - and statistically failing to show any impact on violent crime - the Brady 'Campaign Against Illegal Guns' is yet another crusade whose ultimate goal is to trample the Second Amendment into dust.”
“Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you - you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside.”
“Ashes to ashes. Dust to dust. We are nothing, but dust and to dust we shall return. Amen.”
“Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.”
“It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.”

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