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"Do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind?"
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Clay"Nobody grasped you by the shoulder while there was still time. Now the clay of which you were shaped has dried and hardened, and naught in you will ever awaken the sleeping musician, the poet, the astronomer that possibly inhabited you in the beginning."
Clay is a type of fine-grained natural soil material containing clay minerals. Most pure clay minerals are white or light-coloured, but natural clays show a variety of colours from impurities, such as a reddish or brownish colour from small amounts of iron oxide.
"Do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind?"
"If they find some stain or blemish in a name of note, not grieving that their greatest are so small, inflate themselves with some insane delight, and judge all nature from her feet of clay."
"To get wealth and security by guile Is like one who pours water into a pot of unbaked clay."
"If we could once understand the common clay of earth we should understand everything."
"Times wheel runs back or stops: Potter and clay endure."
"These look like the workmanship of heaven; This is the porcelain clay of human kind, And therefore cast into these noble moulds."