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With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die. – Abraham Lincoln
Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections. – George Eliot
Explain it as we may, a martial strain will urge a man into the front rank of battle sooner than an argument, and a fine anthem excite his devotion more certainly than a logical discourse. – Henry Tuckerman
Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long. – Robert Lynd
If this world affords true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years, where the necessities of life come without severe strain, where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered. – A. Edward Newton
Out of the strain of the Doing, Into the peace of the Done. – Julia Louise Woodruff
Rough wind, that moanest loudGrief too sad for songWild wind, when sullen cloudKnells all the night longSad storm, whose tears are vain,Bare woods, whose branches strain,Deep caves and dreary main, - Wail, for the world's wrong – Percy Bysshe Shelley
Sooner of later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Strain every nerve to gain your point. – Cicero
The founding fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called education. School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you. – John Updike
We strain to renew our capacity for wonder, to shock ourselves into astonishment once again. – Shana Alexander
You say that love is nonsense....I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day a long strain on one's nerves like toothache or rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength. – Henry Adams

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