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«Our dreams are a second life. I have never been able to penetrate without a shudder those ivory or horned gates which separate us from the invisible world.»
«There is nothing but water in the holy pools. I know, I have been swimming there. All the gods sculpted of wood or ivory can?t say a word. I know, I have been crying out to them. The Sacred Books of the East are nothing but words. I looked through their covers one day sideways. What Kabir talks of is only what he has lived through. If you have not lived through something, it is not true.»
«Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir/ Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine, / With a cargo of ivory, / And apes and peacocks,/Sandalwood, cedarwood and sweet white wine.»
«The elephant has a thick skin, a head full of ivory, and as everyone who has seen a circus parade knows, proceeds best by grasping the tail of its predecessor.»
«The men of Dedan were thy merchants; many isles were the merchandise of thine hand: they brought thee for a present horns of ivory and ebony.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: ebony, isles, Isle of Man, ivory, merchants
«Of the oaks of Bashan have they made thine oars; the company of the Ashurites have made thy benches of ivory, brought out of the isles of Chittim.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: benches, isles, ivory, oaks, oars
«Out of a dog's mouth will never come ivory tusks»
Author: Chinese Proverbs | Keywords: ivory
«The little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush, as produces little effect after much labour.»
Author: Jane Austen (Novelist, Writer) | Keywords: inches, ivory
«When they come downstairs from their ivory towers, idealists are apt to walk straight into the gutter»

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