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


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As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
ANTISTHENES ANTISTHENES
As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
ANTISTHENES PINTO
As iron is eaten by rust, so are the envious consumed by envy.
ANTISTHENES
As iron is eaten by rust, so are the envious consumed by envy.
ANTISTHENES
Passion in all its forms is a mental thirst, a fever, a torturing unrest. As a fire consumes a magni...
JAMES ALLEN
By obliging men to turn their attention to other affairs then their own, it rubs off that private se...
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE
Even a ring of iron is worn away by constant use.
UNKNOWN
Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron.
EZRA CORNELL
He's totally consumed by racing, ... It's a passion. Everybody who succeeds highly is driven by what...
CARL EDWARDS
There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; s...
WILLIAM BOOTH
Act now! For procrastination, as with rust, insidiously corrodes even the most iron hard determinati...
DIETMAR PAHL
My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away; / Which a...
BIBLE
Rust consumes iron and envy consumes itself.
DANISH PROVERB
I've always been just kind of consumed by my own thoughts.
DWIGHT YOAKAM
All foreign food is doomed to be consumed in India not so much by Indians as by a voracious Indian s...
AMIT CHAUDHURI
The Government cannot just be consumed by Brexit. There is so much more to do.
THERESA MAY
Pain Is Caused By Pleasure
SULLY ERNA
The Herondales are a rather infamous line, as you probably know. Many of them heroes, some of them t...
CASSANDRA CLARE
It is idleness that is the curse of man - not labour. Idleness eats the heart out of men as of natio...
SAMUEL SMILES
I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the s...
ROLAND BARTHES
People that are jealous and envious of you are too freaking lazy to step up their own game.
APRIL MAE MONTERROSA
Just as tall trees are known by their shadows, so are good men known by their enemies
CHINESE PROVERBS
He had mourned each of those great trains as, one by one, they were pulled off the lines and left to...
FANNIE FLAGG
As we are, so we associate. The good, by affinity, seek the good; the vile, by affinity, the vile. T...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Trees bear fruits only to be eaten by others; the fields grown grains, but they are consumed by the ...
MUNSHI PREMCHAND
As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no mor...
BIBLE
Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth hi...
THOMAS KEMPIS
Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the ...
LEONARDO DA VINCI
Some people live as though they are already dead. There are people moving around us who are consumed...
THICH NHAT HANH
The food eaten by hermits in the forest, milk, Soma juice, meat which is not prepared with spices , ...
GURU NANAK
That if gold rust, what shall iron do?/ For if a priest be foul, in whom we trust,/ No wonder is a l...
GEOFFREY CHAUCER
The general's disdained By him one step below, he by the next, The next by him beneath; so eve...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
A man is never so ridiculous by those Qualities that are his own as by those that he affects to have
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
So? What are you going to do about it? Throw your mashed potatoes at me? I'm consumed by terror.
JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT
Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.
ARTHUR KEITH
Discover continually until you are consumed with a passion to know God
SUNDAY ADELAJA
One of a parent’s most important tasks is teaching their children how to communicate effectively a...
BY FAMOUS
Every day may not be good, but there is something good in every day.
BY ALEFLETCHER
You don' know how bizarre it is to see Goyle thinking.
J.K. ROWLING
Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own...
BRYANT H. MCGILL
Trustful people are the pure at heart, as they are moved by the zeal of their own trustworthiness.
CRISS JAMI
Patients are empowered by having better access to their own health information, and then by owning t...
ELIZABETH HOLMES
I am consumed by love.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
Life is languished away in the gloom of anxiety, and consumed in collecting resolutions which the ne...
SAMUEL JOHNSON
Saying of the Prophet
Food
Nobody has eaten better food than that won by his own labour.
IDRIES SHAH
The boy you trained, gone he is. Consumed by Darth Vader.
YODA
As a bird with beautiful feathers is the target of hunters, so the gifted are targets of the envious...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO
An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared les...
SIDDHA NAGARJUNA
An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared les...
OVID
We know that arsenic likes to stick to iron oxides, various kinds of rust,
GREGORY MILLER
As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounde...
HELEN KELLER
If the living are haunted by the dead, then the dead are haunted by their own mistakes.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
This public fund must be consumed by my family & i only,so says Mr corruption.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
We were confronted by an Everton side who fought for everything, like they always do on their own gr...
JOSE MOURINHO
The ultimate "computer," our own brain, uses only ten watts of power -- one-tenth the energy consume...
PAUL VALERY
There are a lot of eating disorders in our sport, so I try very hard not to get consumed by all that...
LAURA WILKINSON
Life can be driven by two things - fear or passion. When we are driven by passion, our fear takes th...
TALIA
I’m turned on by women who are comfortable in their own skin; and I’m turned off by those who ar...
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA
As soon as the words leave her mouth, I'm completely consumed by a sense of peace. For the first tim...
COLLEEN HOOVER
Her joke of a name aside, her general unprettiness aside, she was, in terms of permanently memorable...
J.D. SALINGER
It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own person...
DAVE BARRY
Perhaps he was probing the enigma of why men fall in love with their dreams, which are then so destr...
JUAN FILLOY
None of the longest-lived people ran marathons or pumped iron. They live exactly as their grandparen...
DAN BUETTNER
People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.
URSULA K. LE GUIN
Saints are usually killed by their own people
ERIC SEVAREID
Many people are confused by their own behavior
SUNDAY ADELAJA
Their blindness and arrogance are as solid as an iron mountain
MARTIN LUTHER
I cannot place the luxury of thought towards tomorrow as I am consumed by living for today.
TRUTH DEVOUR
The great questions of the day are not decided by speeches and majority votes, but by blood and iron...
OTTO VON BISMARCK
[The great questions of the day] are not decided by speeches and majority votes, but by blood and i...
KARL OTTO VON SCHONHAUSEN BISMARCK
He subdues their rising passion and soothes their anger by soft remonstrance.
DAVID TUVILL
Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away....
SAMUEL JOHNSON
Dreams are achieved by sweat, blood, tears and an iron will!
AVIJEET DAS
Dreams are achieved by blood, sweat, tears, and an iron-will!
AVIJEET DAS
Some humans are so consumed with trying to control the outcomes of their own lives that they don’t...
KATE MCGAHAN
Demand is incredible. Customers are blown away by it. The flavor of whitebait is so subtle.
ANDREW CAMERON
My friend was eaten alive by this bacteria . His legs, his arms were eaten, his intestines were eate...
STEPHANIE SOFOS
Sometimes, I get so consumed by depression that it is hard to believe that the whole world doesn't s...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL
In their setting of their threshold by my thresholds, and their post by my posts, and the wall betwe...
BIBLE
It's been hell. You're consumed by it. This is my free time.
DEBRA KILLIAN
As far as I can tell, the Republicans, at least on Capitol Hill, are far more immoral, by their own ...
JOE CONASON
Rust has virtually gone away.
DAVID CHAMPION
She nourishes the poison in her veins and is consumed by a secret fire.
UNKNOWN
She nourishes the poison in her veins and is consumed by a secret fire.
VIRGIL
The futures and ultimate fates of the characters in The Snow Queen are profoundly changed by choices...
JOAN D. VINGE
All men, even those we call savages, have been so tormented by the passion for strong drinks, that l...
JEAN ANTHELME BRILLAT-SAVARIN
Hey, why you are staring at me with a gaze like something I have done wrong, waiting wrong to be don...
DEYTH BANGER
True generosity is too frequently eaten up by prosperity and riches.
ELLEN G. WHITE
The moose are getting eaten by the high number of wolves. With moose numbers so low, we would have e...
JOHN VUCETICH
they were the generation meant to be consumed by fire.
LIU CIXIN
This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet los...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by ...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Any people attempting to govern themselves by laws of their own making, and by officers of their own...
ORSON PRATT
By 8 a.m., ... there are usually two vendors out here, and an envious woman in the corner. If you ha...
JOSE ORTIZ
As clouds are blown away by the wind, the thirst for material pleasures will be driven away by the u...
SRI SARADA DEVI
Our own place is mall perhaps, but when your old man is eaten by his own shadow, you realise that ma...
MARKUS ZUSAK
Yet I must tell you, that all these graces which are expressed by passions of sorrow, fear, joy, hop...
RICHARD BAXTER
...our souls may be consumed by shadows, but that doesn't mean we have to behave as monsters.
EMM COLE

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Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning.
ANTISTHENES ANTISTHENES
I am sadly afraid that I must have done some wicked thing.
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Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.
ANTISTHENES ANTISTHENES
Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.
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The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.
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Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.
ANTISTHENES ANTISTHENES
As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
ANTISTHENES ANTISTHENES
There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temp...
ANTISTHENES ANTISTHENES
Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.
ANTISTHENES
As iron is eaten by rust, so are the envious consumed by envy.
ANTISTHENES
Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.
ANTISTHENES
Serve your enemies for they first find out your faults
ANTISTHENES
Pay attention to your enemies for they are the first to discover your mistakes.
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We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another r...
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It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead -- these the livin...
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There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temp...
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It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead--these the living.
ANTISTHENES
Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.
ANTISTHENES
Observe your enemies for they first find out your faults.
ANTISTHENES
I am sadly afraid that I must have done some wicked thing.
ANTISTHENES
The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.
ANTISTHENES
The most necessary learning is that which unlearns evil
ANTISTHENES
It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead - these the living
ANTISTHENES
When brothers agree, no fortress is so strong as their common life
ANTISTHENES
The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of education
ANTISTHENES
As iron is eaten by rust, so are the envious consumed by envy.
ANTISTHENES
Aut mentem parandam, aut laqueum.
ANTISTHENES
As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
ANTISTHENES PINTO