“ Love in a hut, with water and a crust, is - Lover, forgive us! - cinders, ashes, dust. ”
- John Keats- Copy
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“ Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity and consume your own smoke with an extra draught of hard work, so that those about you may not be annoyed with the dust and soot of your complaints. ”
- Sir William Osler- Copy
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“ The chemists are a strange class of mortals, impelled by an almost insane impulse to seek their pleasure among smoke and vapor, soot and flame, poisons and poverty, yet among all these evils I seem to live so sweetly, that may I die if I would change places with the Persian King. ”
- Johann Becher- Copy
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“ Thus this brook hath conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn into the narrow seas, they into the main ocean. And thus the ashes of Wickliffe are the emblem of his doctrine, which now is dispersed all the world over. ”
- Thomas Fuller- Copy
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