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Letter "I" » iron
«Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.»
Author: Bishop Robert South
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Clergyman)
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Keywords:
consumes,
creeping,
defiles,
eats,
gnaw,
gnawed,
gnawing,
gnaws,
gnaw at,
guilt,
iron,
metal,
metals,
rust,
substance
«If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron.»
«Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.»
«For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string.»
«Generally, about all perception, we can say that a sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet ring without the iron or gold»
Author: Aristotle
(
Philosopher,
Physician,
Scientist)
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Keywords:
impress,
iron,
perception,
receiving,
ring,
sensible,
signet,
signets,
signet ring,
the matter,
wax,
waxes,
waxing
«I'm gonna be iron like a lion in Zion»
«Don't waste good iron for nails or good men for soldiers»
Author: Chinese Proverbs
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Keywords:
as soldiers,
iron,
ironed,
ironing,
irons,
nailed,
nailing,
nails,
soldiered,
soldiering,
soldiers,
Soldiers of the,
The Nails,
waste
«Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites»
«Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold»
Author: Mark Twain
(
Humorist,
Lecturer,
Writer)
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Keywords:
educated,
educates,
gold,
iron,
ironed,
ironing,
irons,
iron ore,
limit,
ore,
ores
«From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(
Author,
Orator,
Prime Minister)
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Keywords:
across,
Adriatic,
An iron,
Baltic,
Continent,
curtain,
descended,
iron,
iron curtain,
The Adriatic,
the continent,
Trieste