"Gold and iron are good To buy iron and gold."
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"Wild liberty breeds iron conscience; natures with great impulses have great resources, and return from far."
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"Truth is always present; it only needs to lift the iron lids of the mind's eye to read its oracles."
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"All over India, all over the world, as the sun or the shadow of darkness moves from east to west, the call to prayer moves with it, and people kneel down in a wave to pray to God. Five waves each day - one for each namaaz - ripple across the globe from longitude to longitude. The component elements change direction, like iron filings near a magnet - towards the house of God in Mecca."
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"What is drawing? How does one get there? It's working one's way through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do. How can one get through that wall? - since hammering on it doesn't help at all. In my view, one must undermine the wall and grind through it slowly and patiently."
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"The Persians are called the French of the East; we will call the Arabs Oriental Italians. A gifted noble people; a people of wildstrong feelings, and of iron restraint over these: the characteristic of noblemindedness, of genius."
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"If you lack the iron and the fizz to take control of your own life, then the gods will repay your weakness by having a grin or two at your expense. Should you fail to pilot your own ship, don't be surprised at what inappropriate port you find yourself docked."
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"if they put an iron circle around your neck I will bite it away"
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"He that by harshness of nature rules his family with an iron hand is as truly a tyrant as he who misgoverns a nation."
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"The stubbornest of wills Are soonest bended, as the hardest iron, O'er-heated in the fire to brittleness,Flies soonest into fragments, shivered through."
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"I wish I had a gentle mind and a spine made up of iron."
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"Ice and iron cannot be welded."
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"There’s always a choice. That’s God’s way, always will be. Your will is still free. Do as you will. There’s no set of leg-irons on you. But... this is what God wants of you."
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"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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"Slavery is slavery. The chain of gold is quite as bad as the chain of iron. Is there a way out?"
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"What we want is muscles of iron and nerves of steel. We have wept long enough. No more weeping, but stand on your feet and be men. It is man-making theories that we want. It is man-making education all round that we want."
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"I wish I had thought of Velcro muscles myself. I didn't have to go to the gym for all those years, all the hours wedded to the iron game, as we call it."
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"I don't iron anything. Never have and never will."
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"For winning Swaraj one requires iron discipline."
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"The iron ring is worn out by constant use. [Lat., Ferreus assiduo consumitur anulus usu.]"
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