These hearts rust just as iron rusts; and indeed they are polished through the recitation of the Qur’an.
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Irshadul Qulub; Page 78Holy Prophet Muhammad
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Just as iron rusts unless it is used, and water putrifies or, in cold, turns to ice, so our intellect spoils unless it is kept in use.
Leonardo da Vinci
When the sun shouts and people abound
One thinks there were the ages of stone and the age of bronze
And the iron age; iron the unstable metal;
Steel made of iron, unstable as his mother; the towered-up cities
Will be stains of rust on mounds of plaster.
Roots will not pierce the heaps for a time, kind rains will cure them,
Then nothing will remain of the iron age
And all these people but a thigh-bone or so, a poem
Stuck in the world's thought, splinters of glass
In the rubbish dumps, a concrete dam far off in the mountain...Robinson Jeffers
Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
Leonardo da Vinci
As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
Antisthenes
Antisthenes used to say that envious people were devoured by their own disposition, just as iron is by rust.
Diogenes Laertius
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