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“None can destroy iron, but its own rust can! Likewise none can destroy a person, but its own mindset can!”

Persons Mindset Iron Rust

Author:Ratan Tata

“Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them.”

Author:William Shakespeare

“By obliging men to turn their attention to other affairs than their own, it rubs off that private selfishness which is the rust of society.”

Men Law Turns Attention Affair Selfishness Rust

Book:Democracy in America

Source: Democracy in America

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

Might Iron Rust Bronze Iron Lady

Author:Margaret Thatcher

“Beauty commonly produces love, but cleanliness preserves it. Age itself is not unamiable while it is preserved clean and unsullied; like a piece of metal constantly kept smooth and bright, we look on it with more pleasure than on a new vessel cankered with rust.”

Looks Age Pleasure Pieces Produce Clean Preserves Metals Smooth Vessel Cleanliness Rust

Book:The spectator

Source: The spectator

“My nun, which is how I think of her, was the most profound witness for God's love I've ever encountered in this world. She was a magnet for lost souls, a petite fortress of strength and unconditional love. What this sprightly, silly, lovely woman did from the obscurity of a faded convent in Rust Belt Chicago was to fulfill in a passionate, tireless way the supreme commandment of Jesus' gospel every day of her life.”

“Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron”

Mind Humans Economy Iron Human Mind Idleness Rust

Author:Ezra Cornell

“War seems to come out of nowhere, like rust that suddenly pops up on iron after a storm.”

War Seems Pops Storm Iron Rust

Author:Victor Davis Hanson

“As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.”

Passion Anger Envy Jealousy Iron Consumed Envious Rust Envied Jealousy Envy Jealousy And Envy Jealous And Envy Envy And Success

Author:Antisthenes

“As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.”

Men Fire Red Hot Adversity Iron Transformed Rust Red Hot Slothfulness

Author:Thomas a Kempis

“I never drink water; that is the stuff that rusts pipes.”

Humor Funny Stuff Water Drink Alcohol Alcoholism Pipe Rust Drinking Alcohol Drinking Water Drink Water Bars Drinking Liquor Funny

Author:W. C. Fields

“Just as gold tarnished in depth (cf. Jms. 5:3) cannot be properly purified and restored to its proper brightness unless it is cast in the fire and thoroughly hammered with mallets, so when the soul has been tarnished with the rust of sin and become thoroughly useless it cannot be cleansed and recover its original beauty unless it meets many trials and enter into the furnace of tribulations.”

Has Beens Soul Christian Sin Fire Gold Originals Depth Casts Trials Useless Orthodox Brightness Rust Tribulation Cfs Furnaces Hammered

Author:Symeon the New Theologian

“You've got to make haste while it's still light of day. My godmother used to say, I don't want to rust out, I just want to work out. If you stand still long enough, people will throw dirt on you.”

People Ifs Want Long Stills Enough Light Used Work Out Laziness Dirt Haste Rust Godmother

Author:Ben Vereen

“If foundations made of stone can turn to dust, then the hardest hearts of steel can turn to rust.”

Ifs Heart Made Turns Stones Foundation Hardest Dust Steel Infidelity Adultery Rust

Author:Shania Twain

“The most civilized people are as near to barbarism as the most polished steel is to rust. Nations, like metals, have only a superficial brilliancy.”

People Political Nations Civilized Metals Steel Superficial Polished Barbarism Rust

Author:Antoine Rivarol

“I have legs of iron, but to tell you the truth, they're starting to rust and buckle a bit.”

Bits Starting Legs Iron Rust Buckles

Author:Jeanne Calment