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What grace is meant to do is to help good people, not to escape their sufferings, but to bear them with a stout heart, with a fortitude that finds its strength in faith.

Saint Augustine

Heart, People, Grace

Saint Augustine (2008). “The City of God, Books XVII–XXII (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 24)”, p.478, CUA Press

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This is one of the stout-hearted old warriors: he is angry with civilization because he supposes that its aim is to make all goodthings--honors, treasures, beautiful women--accessible even to cowards.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Beautiful, Courage, Warrior

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A digging fork is a stout, short-handled tool with four flat tines about a foot long.... for weeding I use it delicately to nudge the soil loose from roots without breaking them.

Sara Bonnett Stein

Weed, Roots, Feet

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My family dumplings are sleek and seductive, yet stout and masculine. They taste of meat, yet of flour. They are wet, yet they are dry. They have weight, but they are light. Airy, yet substantial. Earth, air, fire, water; velvet and elastic! Meat, wheat and magic! They are our family glory!

Robert P. T. Coffin

Food, Fire, Light

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Rex Stout's narrative and dialogue could not be improved, and he passes the supreme test of being rereadable. I don't know how many times I have reread the Wolfe stories, but plenty. I know exactly what is coming and how it is all going to end, but it doesn't matter. That's writing.

P. G. Wodehouse

Writing, Stories, Narrative

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A stout heart, a clear conscience, and never despair.

John Quincy Adams

Heart, Despair, Clear

"The works of Charles Sumner". Book by Charles Sumner, 1870.

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Some men by unalterable frame of their constitution are stout, others timorous, some confident, others modest and tractable.

Jonathan Weiner

Men, Constitution, Modest

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Who doubting tyranny, and fainting under Fortune's false lottery, desperately run To death, for dread of death; that soul's most stout, That, bearing all mischance, dares last it out.

Francis Beaumont

Running, Soul, Doubt

Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher (1750). “The Works of Francis Beaumont, and Mr. John Fletcher: The two noble kinsmen; Thierry and Theodoret; The woman-hater; The nice valour; The honest man's fortune; A masque; Four plays or moral representations in one”, p.433

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Sturdy beggars can bear stout denials.

Charles Caleb Colton

Denial, Bears, Sturdy

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Far better it is to have a stout heart always and suffer one's share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen.

Herodotus

Heart, Evil, Suffering

Herodotus, George Rawlinson (1996). “Histories”, p.533, Wordsworth Editions

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The baby romped on my lap like a short stout salmon.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

Baby, Children, Salmon

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Major Richard Bong was an example of the tragic and terrible price we must pay to maintain principles of human rights, of greater value than life itself. This gallant Air Force hero will be remembered because he made his final contribution to aviation in the dangerous role of test pilot of an untried experimental plane, a deed that places him among the stout-hearted pioneers who gave their lives in the conquest of sky and space.

Eddie Rickenbacker

Hero, Sky, Space

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The world continues to offer glittering prizes to those who have stout hearts and sharp swords.

F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead

Heart, Bravery, World

Rectorial Address, Glasgow University, 7 November 1923, in 'The Times' 8 November 1923

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When I was young I spoke like a child I saw with a child's eyes And an open door was to a girl Like the stars are to the sky It's funny how the world lives up to All your expectations With adventures for the stout of heart And the lure of the open spaces There's two lanes running down this road And whichever side you're on Accounts for where you want to go Or what you're running from Back when darkness overtook me On a blind man's curve I relied upon the moon and Saint Christopher

Mary Chapin Carpenter

Girl, Running, Stars

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Never give up! If adversity presses, Providence wisely has mingled the cup, And the best counsel, in all your distresses, Is the stout watchword of "Never give up."

Martin Farquhar Tupper

Giving Up, Adversity, Cups

Martin Farquhar Tupper (1863). “Cithara: a selection from the lyrics of M. F. Tupper”, p.48

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A man must have a stout digestion to feed upon some men's theology; no sap, no sweetness, no life, but all stern accuracy, and fleshless definition. Proclaimed without tenderness, and argued without affection, the gospel from such men rather resembles a missile from a catapult than bread from a Father's hand.

Charles Spurgeon

Father, Men, Hands

Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1870). “Feathers for Arrows: Or Illustrations for Preachers and Teachers, from My Note Book”, p.243

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He overcomes a stout enemy who overcomes his own anger.

Aristotle

Enemy, Overcoming

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Exegetical commentaries on the books of the Bible come in all shapes and sizes. Harold Hoehner's new volume on Ephesians has both a distinctive shape and a monumental size. Its value lies in its attention to detail and its full discussion of all relevant and disputed points. The volume will be an invaluable resource for scholars and students. Not all Hoehner's conclusions will command consent, but he has produced a stout and readable volume that all will turn to for guidance and help.

Ralph P. Martin

Lying, Book, Details

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Sure as the most certain sure .... plumb in the uprights, well entreated, braced in the beams, Stout as a horse, affectionate, haughty, electrical, I and this mystery we stand. Clear and sweet is my soul .... and clear and sweet is all that is not my soul, Lack one lacks both .... and the unseen is proved by the seen Till that becomes unseen and receives proof in its turn. To elaborate is no avail .... Learned and unlearned feel that it is so.

Walt Whitman

Sweet, Horse, Soul

Walt Whitman, “Song Of Myself, III”

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My chance, when it came, was due, literally, to the fact that I was slender.... You cannot make an opera audience believe that a man will endanger his soul, and commit robbery and murder for a very stout lady's sake.

Maria Jeritza

Believe, Men, Soul

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The most perfect steersman that you can have, and the best helm, lies in the triumphal gateway of copying from nature. And this outdoes all other models; and always rely on this with a stout heart, especially as you begin to gain some judgment in draftsmanship.

Cennino Cennini

Nature, Lying, Heart

Cennino Cennini (2012). “The Craftsman's Handbook”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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In times gone by there lived a Count of Ponthieu, who loved chivalry and the pleasures of the world beyond measure, and moreover was a stout knight and a gallant gentleman

Marie de France

Knights, Gentleman, Gone

Marie de France (2015). “Medieval Lays and Legends of Marie de France”, p.135, Xist Publishing

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Trees have from time immemorial been closely associated with magic. These stout members of the vegetable kingdom may stand for as long as a thousand years, and tower far above our mortal heads. As such they are symbols and keepers of unlimited power, longevity, and timelessness. An untouched forest, studded with trees of all ages, sizes and types, is more than a mysterious, magical place - it is one of the energy reservoirs of nature. Within its boundaries stand ancient and new sentinels, guardians of the universal force which has manifested on the the Earth. . . .

Scott Cunningham

Vegetables, Years, Long

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It's a great historical joke that when the Spanish met the Aztecs, it was a blind date made in serve-you-right heaven. At the time, they were the two most unpleasant cultures in the entire world, and richly deserved each other. Still, the story of how stout Cortes blustered, bullied and bludgeoned his way to collapsing an entire empire with a handful of contagious hoodlums is astonishing.

A. A. Gill

Two, History, Heaven

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I think a stalwart peasant in sheep-skin coat, born on the soil, whose forefathers have been farmers for ten generations, with a stout wife and a half dozen children, is good quality

Clifford Sifton

Children, Thinking, Sheep

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