Edgar Allan Poe Quotes, Wall Quotes, Iron Quotes

I could have clasped the red walls to my bosom as a garment of eternal peace. "Death," I said, "any death but that of the pit!" Fool! might I have not known that into the pit it was the object of the burning iron to urge me?

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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

Life is not as idle ore, But iron dug from central gloom, And heated hot with burning fears, And dipt in baths of hissing tears, And batter'd with the shocks of doom, To shape and use.

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Life Quotes , Iron Quotes

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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Tags : Margaret Thatcher Quotes , Iron Quotes , Rust Quotes

The best stroked putt in a lifetime does not bring the aesthetic satisfaction of a perfectly hit wood or iron shot. There is nothing to match the whoosh and soar, the almost magical flight of a beautifully hit drive or 5-iron.

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Tags : Al Barkow Quotes , Golf Quotes , Iron 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

Custom is custom: it is built of brass, boiler-iron, granite; facts, reasonings, arguments have no more effect upon it than the idle winds have upon Gibraltar.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Wind Quotes , Iron Quotes

For winning Swaraj one requires iron discipline.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Winning Quotes , Iron Quotes

An iron curtain has descended over Europe.

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Any leader has to have a certain amount of steel in them, so I am not that put out being called the Iron Lady.

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Tags : Margaret Thatcher Quotes , Iron Quotes , Leader Quotes

Life is not as idle ore, But iron dug from central gloom, And heated hot with burning fears, And dipt in baths of hissing tears, And batter'd with the shocks of doom, To shape and use.

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Life Quotes , Iron 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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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Iron Quotes , Soul Quotes

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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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Night Quotes , Iron Quotes

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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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Children 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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Tags : Adolf Hitler Quotes , Iron Quotes , People Quotes

As great Pythagoras of yore, Standing beside the blacksmith's door, And hearing the hammers, as they smote The anvils with a different note, Stole from the varying tones, that hung Vibrant on every iron tongue, The secret of the sounding wire. And formed the seven-chorded lyre.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Iron Quotes , Doors 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

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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Tags : Horace Quotes , Cutting Quotes , Iron Quotes

A golden chain is as much a chain as an iron one. Shri Ramakrishna used to say that, to pick out one thorn which has stuck into the foot, another thorn is requisitioned, and when the thorn is taken out, both are thrown away. So the bad tendencies are to be counteracted by the good ones, but after that, the good tendencies have also to be conquered.

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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Taken 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