A Quote by Sophocles

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.

Sophocles

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Fire Flies Fragments Hardest Heated Iron Through Wills

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Sophocles
Greek - Poet
496 BC - 406 BC

The best fire doesna flare up the soonest.

George Eliot

Not so in haste, my heart! Have faith in God and wait; Although he linger long, He never comes too late. He never comes too late, He knoweth what is best: Vex not thyself in vain; Until he cometh, rest. Until he cometh, rest. Nor grudge the hours that roll: The feet that wait for God Are soonest at the goal. Are soonest at the goal. That is not gained by speed; Then hold thee still, my heart, For I shall wait his lead.

Bradford Torrey

Least said, soonest mended

Charles Dickens

Little said is soonest mended.

George Wither

That danger which is despised arrives the soonest.

Decimus Laberius

Devils soonest tempt, resembling spirits of light.

William Shakespeare

And fearless minds climb soonest unto crowns.

William Shakespeare

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

Voltaire

The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

William Hazlitt

When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner

William Shakespeare

And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.

Thomas Moore

The sweetest pleasures soonest cloy, And its best flavour temperance gives to joy.

Juvenal

But, did the Divinity [of Christ] suffer? [...] The holy fathers explained this point through the aforementioned clear example of the red-hot iron, it is the analogy equated for the Divine Nature which became united with the human nature. They explained that when the blacksmith strikes the red-hot iron, the hammer is actually striking both the iron and the fire united with it. The iron alone bends (suffers) whilst the fire is untouched though it bends with the iron.