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«Love is the only fire that is hot enough to melt the iron obstinacy of a creatures' will»

Author: Alexander MacLaren | About: Love | Keywords: creatures, fire, hot, hotter, iron, ironed, ironing, irons, melt, obstinacy

«Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation ... even so does inaction sap the vigour of the mind.»

Author: Leonardo da Vinci (Architect, Engineer, Painter, Sculptor) | About: Action | Keywords: disuse, even so, inaction, iron, ironed, ironing, irons, loses, purity, rusted, rusts, sap, sapped, sapping, saps, stagnation, vigour, water

«Kind words will unlock an iron door»

Author: Turkish Proverb | Keywords: An iron, door, iron, ironed, ironing, irons, unlock, unlocked, unlocking, unlocks

«Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down? / Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn? / Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft words unto thee? / Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever? / Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens? / Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part him among the merchants? / Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears? / Lay thine hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more.»

Author: Bible | Keywords: barb, barbed, companions, cord, do no, drawn-out, draw out, irons, Iron Hand, iron maiden, leviathan, merchants, spears, supplications, thorn

«Don't waste good iron for nails or good men for soldiers»

Author: Chinese Proverbs | Keywords: as soldiers, iron, ironed, ironing, irons, nailed, nailing, nails, soldiered, soldiering, soldiers, Soldiers of the, The Nails, waste

«He that hath many irons in the fire, some of them will cool»

Author: English Proverb | Keywords: cool, irons, the fire

«Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.»

Author: Leonardo da Vinci (Architect, Engineer, Painter, Sculptor) | About: Action, Mind | Keywords: disuse, even so, inaction, intellect, iron, ironing, irons, just as, rusted, rusts, spoil, spoiling, spoilt

«Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold»

Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | Keywords: educated, educates, gold, iron, ironed, ironing, irons, iron ore, limit, ore, ores

«His golf bag does not contain a full set of irons.»

Author: Robin Williams | Keywords: bag, contain, golf, golfing, golf bag, irons

«Ever notice how irons have a setting for permanent press? I don't get it...»

Author: Stephen Wright (Actor, Writer) | Keywords: get it, In the press, ironed, ironing, irons, notice, permanent, press, press on, setting, settings

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