Horace Quotes, Cutting Quotes, Iron Quotes

I will perform the function of a whetstone, which is about to restore sharpness to iron, though itself unable to cut. [Lat., Fungar vice cotis, acutum Reddere quae ferrum valet, exsors ipsi secandi.]

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Soft pity enters an iron gate.

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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.

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Money and power can liberate only if they are used to do so. They can imprison and inhibit more finally than barred windows and iron chains.

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Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Iron Quotes , Window Quotes

Really living without clutter takes an iron will ... This involves eternal watchfulness and that oldest and most relentless of the housewife's occupations, picking up. I have a feeling that picking up will go on long after ways have been found to circumvent death and taxes.

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Tags : Ada Louise Huxtable Quotes , Iron Quotes , Long Quotes

Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as, warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek.

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My countrymen should have nerves of steel, muscles of iron, and minds like thunderbolt.

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Ladies and gentlemen, I stand before you tonight in my … chiffon evening gown, my face softly made up, my fair hair gently waved, the Iron Lady of the Western world. Me? A Cold War warrior? … Well, yes — if that is how they wish to interpret my defense of values of freedoms fundamental to our way of life.

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The iron tongue of Midnight hath told twelve lovers, to bed; 'tis almost fairy time. I fear we shall outstep the coming morn as much as we this night over-watch'd.

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We have become great because of the lavish use of our resources ... But the time has come to inquire seriously what will happen when our forests are gone, when the coal, the iron, the oil and the gas are exhausted.

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Nature Quotes , Iron Quotes

INK, n. A villainous compound of tannogallate of iron, gum-arabic, and water, chiefly used to facilitate the infection of idiocy and promote intellectual crime.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Iron Quotes , Water Quotes

Wild liberty breeds iron conscience; natures with great impulses have great resources, and return from far.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Freedom Quotes , Iron Quotes

Slavery is slavery. The chain of gold is quite as bad as the chain of iron. Is there a way out?

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The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.

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Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Stars Quotes , Iron Quotes

When people attempt to rebel against the iron logic of Nature, they come into conflict with the very same principles to which they owe their existence as human beings. Their actions against Nature must lead to their own downfall.

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I might have preferred iron - but bronze will do. It won't rust. This time I hope, the head will stay on.

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What Britain needs is an iron lady.

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My child, what I want is muscles of iron and nerves of steel, inside which dwells a mind of the same material as that of which the thunderbolt is made.

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Responsible for wrapping the iron fist of authority in its velvet glove is Jane Axtell, head of the accountancy firm's Human Resources department.

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Tags : Alain de Botton Quotes , Iron Quotes , Velvet Quotes

The way to transmute your iron duty into gold in everyone's eyes is this: always deliver more than you promise.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Eye Quotes , Iron Quotes