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Letter "R" » rust
«The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.»
«Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.»
«Sloth like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright»
«The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is in love, laughter, and work.»
«Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.»
«Sorrow: a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
contributes, passage, rust, scour, scoured, scouring
«The Knight's bones are dust, / And his good sword rust; - / His soul is with the saints, I trust.»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
knight, rust, The knight, The Saints
«Shun idleness is the rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.»
«Trouble is to man what rust is to iron»
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