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"By Fate full many a heart has been undone, And many a sprightly rose made woe-begone; Plume thee not on thy lusty youth and strength: Full many a bud is blasted ere its bloom." »Omar Khayyam
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"He who is full of faith and modesty, who shrinks from sin, and is full of learning, who is diligent, unremiss, and full of understanding?he, being replete with these seven things, is esteemed a wise man." »Burmese Proverb
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"One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity." »Albert Schweitzer
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"“When you're ready to make the change and you don't feel that you have the strength, know that you are connected with the same strength that moves the world; you just have to stop turning your back on it and connect with it."" »Steve Maraboli
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"Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain." »John Dryden
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"The real tradegy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort-he never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature." »Arnold Bennett
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"The world is full of suffering but it is also full of people overcoming it." »Helen Keller
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"My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure." »Alfred Lord Tennyson
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"Beat a man with the strength of you argument, not with the strength of your arm." »Oliver Wendell Holmes
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"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it." »Helen Keller
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"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it." »Helen Keller
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"Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it." »Helen Keller
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"Uncultivated minds are not full of wild flowers, like uncultivated fields. Villainous weeds grow in them, and they are full of toads." »Logan Pearsall Smith
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"Ther are so many people. It is easy to forget how full th world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistantly misimagined." »John Green
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"Numbers are essential, but not absolutely essential to strength. For many churches are numerically strong but lamentably weak spiritually. Numbers, then, are no display of spiritual power or strength." »W. T. Ussery
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"Hear me, four quarters of the world - a relative I am Give me the strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that is Give me the eyes to see and the strength to understand, that I may be like you. With your power only can I face the winds." »Black Elk
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"Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory." »Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
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"A wise man ought always to follow the paths beaten by great men, and to imitate those who have been supreme, so that if his ability does not equal theirs, at least it will savor of it. Let him act like the clever archers who, designing to hit the mark which yet appears too far distant, and knowing the limits to which the strength of their bow attains, take aim much higher than the mark, not to reach by their strength or arrow to so great a height, but to be able with the aid of so high an aim to hit the mark they wish to reach." »Niccolo Machiavelli
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"Damn the torpedoes, Drayton, go ahead! Jouett, full speed! (frequently erroreously quoted as 'Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead')" »David Glasgow Farragut
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"From Mount Hollywood, Los Angeles looks rather nice, enveloped in a haze of changing colors. Actually, and in spite of all the healthful sunshine and ocean breezes, it is a bad place - full of old, dying people, who were born old of tired pioneer parents, victims of America - full of curious wild and poisonous growths, decadent religious cults and fake science, and wildcat enterprises, which, with their aim for quick profit, are doomed to collapse and drag down multitudes of people." »Louis Adamic
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"Strength is the outcome of need." »H. G. Wells, The Time Machine
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"There is a strength in the union even of very sorry men." »Homer
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"Union gives strength." »Aesop
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"For all their strength, men were sometimes like little children." »Lawana Blackwell
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"Once I had the strength but no wisdom now I have the wisdom but no strength." »Persian Proverb
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"Valour needs first strength, then a weapon." »J. R. R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
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"He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity." »Ben Jonson
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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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"If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength." »French Proverb
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"The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it." »Woodrow Wilson
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