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Iron Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard as iron.
- Debt, grinding debt, whose iron face the widow, the orphan, and the sons of genius fear and hate; debt, which consumes so much time, which…
- Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own…
- Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the…
- And truly it demands something god like in him who has cast off the common motives of humanity, and has ventured to trust himself for…
- Truth is always present; it only needs to lift the iron lids of the mind's eye to read its oracles.
- It is wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log-hut on the frontier. You would think they found it under a pine-stump. With it…
- Wild liberty breeds iron conscience; natures with great impulses have great resources, and return from far.
- We are always getting ready to live, but never living... The wave moves onward but the particles of which it is composed do not... It…
- Gold and iron are good To buy iron and gold.
- Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
More Iron Quotes
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- I want to be America's Margaret Thatcher. I will be the next Iron Lady. — Michele Bachmann
- I like cast iron coated with enamel for longevity and forgiveness if I happen to take my eyes off the prize while… — Mario Batali
- The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron,… — Henry Ward Beecher
- The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood. — Otto von Bismarck
- To go into therapy is an adventure, not really to iron anything out. — Jeff Bridges
- No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve. — Thomas Carlyle
- From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. — Winston Churchill
- Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it… — Henri Frederic Amiel
- Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion. — Antisthenes
- The proposition that the meek (that is the adaptable and serviceable), inherit the earth is not merely a wishful sentiment of religion,… — Kenneth E. Boulding