Stronger Quotes - Page 38

• Stronger than thunder's winged force All-powerful gold can speed its course; Through watchful guards its passage make, And loves through solid walls to break.

  Horace

  Wall, Powerful, Gold

  Horace, Philip FRANCIS (D.D.) (1815). “The Works of Horace, Translated by Philip Francis”, p.103

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• He divines remedies against injuries; he knows how to turn serious accidents to his own advantage; whatever does not kill him makes him stronger

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Doe, Serious, Injury

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• The stronger always succeeds.

  Plautus

  Strength, Succeed

  "Truculentus". IV, 3, 30,

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• What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker! They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent; but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in maturer life.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Mistake, Passion, Energy

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• There exist some evils so terrible and some misfortunes so horrible that we dare not think of them, whilst their very aspect makes us shudder; but if they happen to fall on us, we find ourselves stronger than we imagined, we grapple with our ill luck, and behave better than we expected we should.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Fear, Fall, Thinking

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• In other men we faults can spy,/ And blame the mote that dims their eye;/ Each little speck and blemish find;/ To our own stronger errors blind.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Eye, Men, Errors

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.82, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• A woman needs a stronger head than her own for counsel - she should marry.

  Pedro Calderon de la Barca

  Needs, Should, Matrimony

  "El Purgatorio de Sans Patricio". Play by Pedro Calderon de la Barca (Act III, Scene 4), translated, 1685.

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• O painter, take care lest the greed for gain prove a stronger incentive than renown in art, for to gain this renown is a far greater thing than is the renown of riches.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Art, Greed, Incentives

  Leonardo (da Vinci) (1957). “Notebooks”

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• Are you willing to forget what you have done for other people, and to remember what other people have done for you ... to remember the weakness and loneliness of people who are growing old ... Are you willing to believe that love is the strongest ting in the world ... stronger than hate, stronger than evil, stronger than death... Then you can keep Christmas! But you can never keep it alone.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Christmas, Hate, Loneliness

  "The Spirit of Christmas". Book by Henry Van Dyke, December 31, 1987.

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• Joking decides great things, Stronger and better oft than earnest can.

  John Milton

  Great Things, Earnest

  John Milton (1829). “Paradise Lost: Paradise Regained”

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• Justice may be blind, but we all know that diversity in the courts, as in all aspects of society, sharpens our vision and makes us a stronger nation.

  William J. Clinton

  Justice, Diversity, Vision

  Clinton, William J. (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 2000-2001”, p.2783, Best Books on

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• The United States remains the last best hope for a mankind plagued by tyranny and deprivation. America is no stronger than its people -- and that means you and me. Well, I believe in you, and I believe that if we work together, then one day we will say, "We fought the good fight. We finished the race. We kept the faith." And to our children and our children's children, we can say, "We did all what could be done in the brief time that was given us here on earth.".

  Ronald Reagan

  Inspirational, Children, Believe

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• I have been true to the principles of nonviolence, developing a stronger and stronger aversion to the ideologies of both the far right and the far left and a deeper sense of rage and sorrow over the suffering they continue to produce all over the world.

  Joan Baez

  Peace, Suffering, Sorrow

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• I look under the skin of countries' economies, and I help them make better decisions and be stronger, to prosper and create employment.

  Christine Lagarde

  Country, Decision, Skins

  "Christine Lagarde: can the head of the IMF save the euro?". Interview With Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. May 25, 2012.

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• Truth and reality in art begin at the point where the artist ceases to understand what he is doing and capable of doing - yet feels in himself a force that becomes steadily stronger... and more concentrated.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Reality, Force

  Hayward Gallery, Henri Matisse, Arts Council of Great Britain (1968). “Matisse: 1869-1954. A retrospective exhibition”

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• A whisper can be stronger, as an atom is stronger, than a whole mountain.

  Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

  Mountain, Atoms, Whole

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• I am beginning to consider myself stronger than all those around me, and you know that the good opinion I have of myself has only been reached after mature consideration.

  Paul Cezanne

  Ego, Opinion, Mature

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• A man doesn't realize how much he can stand until he is put to the test. You can stand far more than you think you can. You are much stronger than you think you are.

  Martin Niemoller

  Strength, Men, Thinking

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• Jas in the Arab language is despair, And Min the darkest meaning of a lie. Thus cried the Jessamine among the flowers, How justly doth a lie Draw on its head despair! Among the fragrant spirits of the bowers The boldest and the strongest still was I. Although so fair, Therefore from Heaven A stronger perfume unto me was given Than any blossom of the summer hours.

  Charles Godfrey Leland

  Summer, Lying, Flower

  Charles Godfrey Leland (1872). “The Music-lesson of Confucius, and Other Poems”, p.32

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• Did you know the pen is stronger than the knife: they can kill you once but they can't kill you twice.

  Damian Marley

  Knives, Killing, Pens

  FaceBook post by Damian Marley from Mar 11, 2013

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• If you use disappointments as sort of mid- semester exams, for learning, you will learn that every disappointment you overcome makes you stronger- and wiser. The greatest success stories have been lived by those who had to grow strong and wise in that very way.

  Loretta Young

  Wise, Strong, Disappointment

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• Grateful for his mistakes, man should be the gods, because by overcoming the faults the stronger force is developed.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Mistake, Grateful, Men

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• The less manifest the work, the stronger: as though a secret law demanded it always be hidden in what it shows, thus showing what must remain hidden, only showing it, in the end, by dissimulation.

  Maurice Blanchot

  Strength, Law, Secret

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• The soul, by an instinct stronger than reason, ever associates beauty with truth.

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

  Beauty, Soul, Reason

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1850). “The optimist”, p.269

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• I feel stronger, but physically I feel like I'm falling apart. Every day I get a new pain or ache and think, 'Oh, that will be a hip replacement in a couple of years'.

  Yasmin Le Bon

  Couple, Pain, Fall

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