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"A man's usefulness depends on his living up to his ideals insofar as he can. It is hard to fail but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune, make for a finer, nobler type of manhood. Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die; and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life."
"Test of Metal: Will of Iron, Nerves of Steel, Heart of Gold, Balls of Brass."
"(When asked who wore the pants in his house:) I do, and I also wash and iron them."
"I guess it was the first time I really thought about leaving. I don't just mean Iron Maiden, I mean quitting music altogether. I just thought, 'Nothing is worth feeling like this for.' I began to feel like I was a piece of machinery, like I was part of the lighting rig."
"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."
"Give them great meals of beef and iron and steel, they will eat like wolves and fight like devils."
"I eat a variety of foods like vegetables, fruit and beef for protein and iron."
"There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection."
"Defeat? I do not recognize the meaning of the word."
"You know, my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression."
"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."
"Antisthenes used to say that envious people were devoured by their own disposition, just as iron is by rust. Envy of others comes from comparing what they have with what the envious person has, rather than the envious person realising they have more than what they could have and certainly more than some others and being grateful. It is really just an inability to get a correct perspective on their lives."
"I'm gonna be Iron, like a Lion in Zion"
"Therefore was I created with a stubborn outside, with an aspect of iron, that when I come to woo ladies, I fright them. But, in faith, Kate, the elder I wax, the better I shall appear. My comfort is that old age, that ill layer-up of beauty, can do no more spoil upon my face. Thou hast me, if thou hast me, at the worst, and thou shalt wear me, if thou wear me, better and better."
"My countrymen should have nerves of steel, muscles of iron, and minds like thunderbolt."
"No man can feel the iron which enters another man's soul."
"Wild liberty develops iron conscience. Want of liberty, by strengthening law and decorum, stupefies conscience."
"What is drawing? It is working oneself through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do."
"When the Iron doesn't want to come off the mat, it's the kindest thing it can do for you. If it flew up and went through the ceiling, it wouldn't teach you anything."
"Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron."
