I count life just a stuff_x000D_ _x000D_ To try the soul's strength on.
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I count life just a stuff_x000D_ _x000D_ To try the soul's strength on.
If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.
Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.
Our strength grows out of our weakness.
I'm not funny. What I am is brave.
The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.
When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.
If we desire our faith to be strengthened, we should not shrink from opportunities where our faith may be tried, and therefore, through trial, be strengthened.
The relationship to one's fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one's striving.
Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.
I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.
Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.
Most people carry that pain around inside them their whole lives, until they kill the pain by other means, or until it kills them. But you, my friends, you found another way: a way to use the pain. To burn it as fuel, for light and warmth. You have learned to break the world that has tried to break you.
Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.
We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
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