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Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.
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The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going that way.
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Strength is a matter of a made up mind.
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A threefold cord is not quickly broken.
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It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.
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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.
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Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
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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.
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We acquire the strength we have overcome.
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There is always room for a person of force and they make room for many.
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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.
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Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side.
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The people rate strength before everything.
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Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.
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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it.
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We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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The weakest link in a chain is the strongest because it can break it.
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Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we are going to show.
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I judge the relative strength of a man by how envious they become, of others, who enjoy a measure of success.
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That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
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Use your weaknesses; aspire to the strength.
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Cunning surpasses strength.
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What the lion cannot manage to do the fox can.
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Three things give us hardy strength: sleeping on hairy mattresses, breathing cold air, and eating dry food.
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Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.
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Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting, but never hit soft.
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How excellent it is to have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous to use like a giant.
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Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.
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Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
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The burden is equal to the horse's strength.
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Physical strength in a woman -- that's what I am.
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Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.
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Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands -- and then eat just one of the pieces.
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There are two ways of exerting one's strength; one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
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It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.
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