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To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might be the world.
-Anon.
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A soft answer turneth away wrath.
-Proverb
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Cunning surpasses strength.
-Proverb
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What the lion cannot manage to do the fox can.
-Proverb
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Three things give us hardy strength: sleeping on hairy mattresses, breathing cold air, and eating dry food.
-Proverb
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Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.
-Francis Bacon
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Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.
-James Barrie
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The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going that way.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Strength is a matter of a made up mind.
-John Beecher
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A threefold cord is not quickly broken.
-Bible
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We live in a wondrous time in which the strong is weak because of his moral scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.
-Otto von Bismarck
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Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manner.
-Hugh Blair
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A fundamental mistake to call vehemence and rigidity strength! A man is not strong who takes convulsion-fits; though six men cannot hold him then. He that can walk under the heaviest weight without staggering, he is the strong man . . . A man who cannot hold his peace, till the time come for speaking and acting, is no right man.
-Thomas Carlyle
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It is truly said: It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide what to do.
-Chow Ching
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Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
-Calvin Coolidge
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Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.
-Dwight D Eisenhower
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We acquire the strength we have overcome.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There is always room for a person of force and they make room for many.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.
-Anna Freud
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Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side.
-James A. Froude
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The people rate strength before everything.
-Johann von Goethe
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Tenderness is a virtue.
-Oliver Goldsmith
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There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.
-Han Suyin
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Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.
-David Hare
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Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.
-Eric Hoffer
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Books about Strength
