“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.”
— Jonathan Swift
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“A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.”
— Marcel Proust
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“The best translations cannot convey to us the strength and exquisite delicacy of thought in its native garb, and he to whom such books are shut flounders about in outer darkness.”
— Edwin Booth
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“Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.”
— James M. Barrie
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“My family is my strength and my weakness.”
— Aishwarya Rai
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“I spend around two and half hours on the track every day running and another 2 hours in the weight room lifting weights with my strength coach.”
— Allyson Felix
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“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.”
— Ernest Hemingway
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“Internationalism on the other hand admits that spiritual achievements have their roots deep in national life; from this national consciousness art and literature derive their character and strength and on it even many of the humanistic sciences are firmly based.”
— Christian Lous Lange
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“Weight-bearing exercise builds bone density, builds your muscular strength so that you can hold your body up where those bones have a tendency to get weak.”
— Ann Richards
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“Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.”
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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“Socialism appeals to better classes and has far more strength. Attack the state and you excite feelings of loyalty even among the disaffected classes; but attack the industrial system and appeal to the state, and you may have loyalty in your favor.”
— John Bates Clark
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