Best Strengthened Lines
182 Strengthened quotes by 160 unique authors
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Habits are formed by the repetition of particular acts. They are strengthened by an increase in the number of repeated acts. Habits are also weakened…
— Mortimer Adler
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There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human, are…
— Winston Churchill
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What men and women need is encouragement. Their natural resisting powers should be strengthened, not weakened ... Instead of always harping on a man's faults,…
— Eleanor Porter
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The strong are strengthened by reverses; the trouble is that the true meaning of events scores next to nothing in the match we play with…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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His conclusion was that things were not always what they appeared to be. The cub's fear of the unknown was an inherited distrust, and it…
— Jack London
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To write with taste, in the highest sense, is to write [...] so that no one commits suicide, no one despairs; to write [...] so…
— John Gardner
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In true marriage there must be a union of minds as well as of hearts. Emotions must not wholly determine decisions, but the mind and…
— Spencer W. Kimball
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I am convinced that it is one of the most unjust wars that has ever been fought in the history of the world. Our involvement…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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When we focus on what is good and beautiful in someone, whether or not we think that they "deserve" it, the good and beautiful are…
— Katrina Kenison
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I dedicate this novel to Gala, who was constantly by my side while I was writing it, who was the good fairy of my equilibrium,…
— Salvador Dali
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Our ancestors took this land. They took it and made it and held it. We do not give up what our ancestors gave us. They…
— Bernard Cornwell
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This thought strengthened in me my belief that all men, without exception, deserve to be pitied, if only because they are alive.
— Alberto Moravia
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Plants grow most in the darkest hours preceding dawn; so do human souls. Nature always pays for a brave fight. Sometimes she pays in strengthened…
— William George Jordan
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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…
— George Muller
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He leaned heavily on the desk now, as if danger had strengthened him before and its lack now made him weak.
— Kristin Cashore
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Our love grows soft if it is not strengthened by truth, and our truth grows hard if it is not softened by love.
— John Stott
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Truth is stranger than fiction," as the old saying goes. When I watch a documentary, I can't help crying and then I think to myself,…
— Hiromu Arakawa
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Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.
— Ruth Gordon
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Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie is not strengthened in…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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In sorrow and suffering, go straight to God with confidence, and you will be strengthened, enlightened and instructed.
— John of the Cross
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The moral sense, or conscience, is as much part of a man as his leg or arm. It is given to all in a stronger…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue…
— Joseph Addison
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After the countrywide victory of the Chinese revolution and the solution of the land problem, two basic contradictions will still exist in China. The first…
— Mao Zedong
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We have forgotten the gracious hand which has preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and have vainly imagined in the…
— Abraham Lincoln
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There are no soft or slothful ways to become sanctified to the point that we are prepared to live in the presence of the Savior.…
— L. Lionel Kendrick
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