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Beauty soaks reality as water fills a rag.

Chet Raymo (2005). “Honey from Stone: A Naturalist's Search for God”, p.55, Cowley Publications

Words are the dress of thoughts; which should no more be presented in rags, tatters, and dirt than your person should.

Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.200, Oxford University Press

Contentment preserves one from catching cold. Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold? No, not even when she had scarcely a rag on her back.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2007). “Twilight of the Idols with the Antichrist and Ecce Homo”, p.8, Wordsworth Editions

Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.

Walter Scott (1851). “The Waverley Novels”, p.60

Rub a half potato on your wart and wrap it in a damp cloth. Close your eyes and whirl three times and throw. Then bury rag and spud exactly where they fall.

Richard Hugo, Ripley S. Hugo (1992). “The Real West Marginal Way: A Poet's Autobiography”, p.169, W. W. Norton & Company

I'll be damned if death wears my sadness for glad rags.

"Something Wicked This Way Comes: A Novel".

Nature is a rag merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end into new creations.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.73, North Atlantic Books

Nature is a rag-merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end into new creations; like a good chemist, whom I found, the other day, in his laboratory, converting his old shirts into pure white sugar.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.73, North Atlantic Books

I had a white senator call me a rag head, and I had an African-American legislator call me a conservative with a tan.

"South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley Says She'd Turn Down VP Nod" by Cynthia McFadden and Amy Bingham, abcnews.go.com. April 02, 2012.

The Lord of Rags and Tatters.

Megan Whalen Turner (2017). “World of the Queen's Thief Collection: The Thief, The Queen of Attolia, The King of Attolia, A Conspiracy of Kings, Thick as Thieves”, p.45, HarperCollins

the conversation whipped gaily around the table like rags in a high wind.

Margaret Halsey (1938). “With Malice Toward Some”

Arms on armour clashing bray'd Horrible discord, and the madding wheels Of brazen chariots rag'd: dire was the noise Of conflict.

John Milton (1801). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With the Principal Notes of Various Commentators. To which are Added Illustrations, with Some Account of the Life of Milton”, p.439

We are very defensive, and therefore aggressive, when we hold on to a particular belief, a dogmas, or when we worship our particular nationality, with the rag that is called the flag.

Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti, (1966-1967): Perennial Questions”, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company

and nobody knows what’s going to happen to anybody besides the forlorn rags of growing old

Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.366, Penguin