4,431 Quotes About Strength


  • Author Harry S Truman
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    The atom bomb was no 'great decision.' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.

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  • Author Henry David Thoreau
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    The poet is no tender slip of fairy stock, who requires peculiar institutions and edicts for his defense, but the toughest son ofearth and of Heaven, and by his greater strength and endurance his fainting companions will recognize the God in him. It is the worshipers of beauty, after all, who have done the real pioneer work of the world.

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  • Author Henry David Thoreau
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    We say justly that the weak person is flat, for, like all flat substances, he does not stand in the direction of his strength, that is, on his edge, but affords a convenient surface to put upon. He slides all the way through life.... But the brave man is a perfect sphere, which cannot fall on its flat side and is equally strong every way.

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