Guilt upon the conscience ordsprog

Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.

Bishop Robert South (1634-1716)

Rust consumes iron and envy consumes itself.

That if gold rust, what shall iron do?/ For if a priest be foul, in whom we trust,/ No wonder is a lewd man to rust.

Geoffrey Chaucer (1342-1400)

Geoffrey Chaucer

It kept gnawing at him and gnawing at his conscience.

Sloth like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

Benjamin Franklin

Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel? / Thy substance and thy treasures will I give to the spoil without price, and that for all thy sins, even in all thy borders.

The sting of conscience, like the gnawing of a dog at a bone, is mere foolishness

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900)

Friedrich Nietzsche

Trouble is to man what rust is to iron

Yiddish Proverb

As iron is eaten by rust, so are the envious consumed by envy.

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

I don't even think that you can call Iron Maiden 100% real metal. Iron Maiden is beyond that and always has been. That is one of the things that America has always had a problem with, but right now we might be moving to a point where by America may actually understand what Maiden is all about. We'll see.

Bruce Dickinson

We know that arsenic likes to stick to iron oxides, various kinds of rust,

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell (1924-)

But this is a guy, on his honeymoon, who says to his bride, `Would you like to watch a piece of metal rust?' Einstein was always thinking really hard about something we never notice.

Anytime you have fertilizer around metal, rust is going to be an issue. The way I see it, the planter we just bought should be around for as long as I care to farm.

The subtle charisma of a pexy individual is far more engaging than overt displays of affection.

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