To be strong
Is to be happy! [ Longfellow ]
God holds with the strong. [ Mazzini ]
In your patience ye are strong. [ Miss Barrett ]
Love me little, love me long,
Is the burden of my song;
Love that is too hot and strong
Burneth soon to waste;
Still I would not have thee cold,
Not too backward or too bold;
Love that lasteth till 'tis old
Fadeth not in haste. [ Old Ballad ]
Thou strong seducer, opportunity. [ Dryden ]
The power of habit is very strong. [ Syrus ]
Oh, fear not in a world like this.
And thou shalt know ere long, -
Know how sublime a thing it is,
To suffer and be strong. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Light Of Stars ]
Weak things united, become strong. [ Proverb ]
Strong reasons make strong actions. [ Shakespeare ]
Sail on, O Ship of State!
Sail on, O Union, strong and great. [ Longfellow ]
Nothing is so strong as gentleness,
Nothing so gentle as real strength. [ St. Francis de Sales ]
The tall oak, towering to the skies,
The fury of the wind defies,
From age to age, in virtue strong.
Inured to stand, and suffer wrong. [ Montgomery ]
A strong nor'wester's blowing. Bill!
Hark! don't yet hear it roar now?
Lord help 'em, how I pities them
Unhappy folks on shore now! [ William Pitt ]
Strong Son of God, immortal Love,
Whom we that have not seen Thy face,
By faith, and faith alone, embrace,
Believing where we cannot prove. [ Alfred Tennyson ]
Fearless as the strong-winged eagle. [ Ossian ]
Honor, thou strong idol of man's mind. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
Fear though blind is swift and strong. [ Dr. Mackay ]
Strong souls, within the present live.
The future veiled, the past forgot;
Grasping what is, with hands of steel,
They bind what shall be, to their will. [ Lewis Morris ]
Be strong, and quit yourselves like men. [ Bible ]
Let gentleness thy strong enforcement be. [ William Shakespeare, As You Like It ]
Such tricks hath strong imagination,
That, if it would but apprehend some joy,
It comprehends some bringer of that joy;
Or in the night, imagining some fear,
How easy is a bush supposed a bear. [ William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream ]
A man may be strong and yet not mow well. [ Proverb ]
Behold the Sea,
The opaline, the plentiful and strong,
Yet beautiful as is the rose in June,
Fresh as the trickling rainbow of July;
Sea full of food, the nourisher of kinds,
Purger of earth, and medicine of men;
Creating a sweet climate by my breath,
Washing out harms and griefs from memory,
And, in my mathematic ebb and flow,
Giving a hint of that which changes not. [ Emerson ]
Wondrous strong are the spells of fiction. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
They say, poor suitors have strong breaths. [ William Shakespeare ]
Who is strong? He who subdues his passions. [ Talmud ]
Rapt with zeal, pathetic, bold, and strong,
Roll'd the full tide of eloquence along. [ Falconer ]
The soul is strong that trusts in goodness. [ Massinger ]
On an average (from the strong to the weak). [ French ]
Before the curing of a strong disease,
Even in the instant of repair and health,
The fit is strongest; evils that take leave.
On their departure most of all show evil. [ William Shakespeare ]
No man's body is as strong as his appetites. [ Tillotson ]
All beasts of prey are strong or treacherous. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats;
For I am armed so strong in honesty
That they pass by me as the idle wind
Which I respect not. [ Jul. Caes ]
A weak body is the assassin of a strong mind. [ T. Tilton ]
A song to the oak, the brave old oak,
Who hath ruled in the greenwood long;
Here's health and renown to his broad,
green crown, And his fifty arms so strong.
There's fear in his frown when the goes down,
And the fire in the West fades out;
And he showeth his might on a wild midnight,
When the storms through his branches shout. [ H. F. Chorley ]
I hate ingratitude more in a man
Than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,
Or any taint of vice, whose strong corruption
Inhabits our frail blood. [ William Shakespeare ]
True valor, friends, on virtue founded strong,
Meets all events alike. [ Mallet ]
Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause. [ Victor Hugo ]
Love the sense of right and wrong confounds;
Strong love and proud ambition have no bounds. [ John Dryden ]
Follow your honest convictions, and be strong. [ William M. Thackeray ]
Dark the Night, with breath all flowers.
And tender broken voice that fills
With ravishment the listening hours, -
Whisperings, wooings.
Liquid ripples, and soft ring-dove cooings
In low-toned rhythm that love's aching stills!
Dark the night
Yet is she bright.
For in her dark she brings the mystic star.
Trembling yet strong, as is the voice of love.
From some unknown afar. [ George Eliot ]
See the enfranchised bird, who wildly springs,
With a keen sparkle in his glowing eye
And a strong effort in his quivering wings,
Up to the blue vault of the happy sky. [ Mrs. Norton ]
Malice hath a sharp sight and a strong memory. [ Proverb ]
Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill. [ William Shakespeare ]
No might nor greatness in mortality
Can censure escape; brick-wounding calumny
The whitest virtue strikes: what king so strong
Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue? [ William Shakespeare ]
But strong of limb
And swift of foot misfortune is, and, far
Outstripping all, comes first to every land,
And there wreaks evil on mankind, which prayers
Do afterwards redress. [ Homer ]
And you, brave Cobham! to the latest breath
Shall feel your ruling passion strong in death. [ Pope ]
Suspicion is ever strong on the suffering side. [ Publius Syrus ]
Power above powers!
O heavenly eloquence!
That with the strong rein of commanding words,
Dost manage, guide, and master the eminence
Of men's affections, more than all their swords! [ Daniel ]
Flowers are Love's truest language; they betray,
Like the divining rods of Magi old,
Where precious wealth lies buried, not of gold,
But love - strong love, that never can decay! [ Park Benjamin ]
Great deeds immortal are - they cannot die,
Unscathed by envious blight or withering frost,
They live, and bud, and bloom; and men partake
Still of their freshness, and are strong thereby. [ Aytoun ]
He is a strong man who can hold down his opinion. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
On wrong
Swift vengeance waits; and art subdues the strong. [ Pope ]
A good cause makes a stout heart and a strong arm. [ Proverb ]
Truth is the strong thing. Let man's life be true. [ Robert Browning ]
Oh, Love, how perfect is thy mystic art,
Strengthening the weak, and trampling on the strong! [ Byron ]
One good head is better than an hundred strong hands. [ Proverb ]
Books, we know,
Are a substantial world, both pure and good;
Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood,
Our pastime and our happiness will grow. [ Wordsworth ]
The strong must build stout cabins for the weak;
Must plan and stint; must sow and reap and store;
For grain takes root though all seems bare and bleak. [ Eugene Lee-Hamilton ]
Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong. [ Ward Beecher ]
Necessity makes the weak strong and the coward vaJiant. [ J. Ray ]
A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us. [ Emerson, from Wordsworth ]
There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard. [ Washington Irving ]
Whoever may
Discern true ends will grow pure enough
To love them, brave enough to strive for them,
And strong enough to reach them, though the road be rough. [ E. B. Browning ]
Solitude is the home of the strong; silence, their prayer. [ Ravignan ]
The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong. [ Bible ]
Remember, when the judgment Is weak the prejudice is strong. [ Kane O'Hara ]
Nothing is strong that may not be endangered even by the weak. [ Quintus Curtius Rufus ]
Nothing is so strong but may be endangered even by the weakest. [ Rufus ]
Pity makes the world soft to the weak, and noble for the strong. [ Edwin Arnold ]
The strong mind is nowise the mind acquainted with its strength. [ Carlyle ]
A wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth strength. [ Bible ]
The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong. [ George William Curtis ]
Sampson was a strong man, yet could not pay money before he had it. [ Proverb ]
The sobbing wind is fierce and strong: Its cry is like a human wail. [ Susan Coolidge ]
Shallow men believe in luck, strong men believe in cause and effect. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
We are not strong by our power to penetrate, but by our relatedness. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Catastrophes dispose all strong and intelligent men to philosophize. [ Balzac ]
Only concord makes us strong and great; discord overthrows everything. [ Gellert ]
Let honor be to us as strong an obligation, as necessity is to others. [ Pliny ]
Love is strong in its passion; affection is powerful in its gentleness. [ Michelet ]
Thou strong seducer, opportunity! of womankind, half are undone by thee. [ Dryden ]
Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength. [ Beecher ]
The joy of a strong nature is as cloudless as its suffering is desolate. [ Ouida ]
Patience is the strongest of strong drinks, for it kills the giant Despair. [ Douglas Jerrold ]
The head, however strong it may be, can accomplish nothing against the heart. [ Mlle. de Scuderi ]
That cause is strong which has not a multitude, but one strong man behind it. [ Lowell ]
Strong thoughts are iron nails driven in the mind, that nothing can draw out. [ Diderot ]
Friendship's the wine of life; but friendship new is neither strong nor pure. [ Young ]
It requires a strong constitution to withstand repeated attacks of prosperity. [ J. L. Basford ]
Pour the full tide of eloquence along, serenely pure, and yet divinely strong. [ Pope ]
Experience teaches that a strong memory is generally joined to a weak judgment. [ Montaigne ]
Strong are the instincts with which God has guarded the sacredness of marriage. [ Maria M'Intosh ]
Gratitude is with most people only a strong desire for greater benefits to come. [ La Roche ]
Triumph not, O Time! strong towers decay, but a great name shall never pass away. [ Park Benjamin ]
Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning that they may follow strong drink. [ Bible ]
There is nothing so strong or safe, in any emergency of life, as the simple truth. [ Charles Dickens ]
What will not woman, gentle woman, dare, When strong affection stirs her spirit up. [ Southey ]
Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ. [ William Shakespeare ]
Weak souls are capable of only weak sentiments; strong souls of powerful sentiments. [ Balzac ]
Sell your confidence at a high price, if at all; to be strong, keep your own counsel. [ Dumas, Pere ]
Honor is an old-world thing; but it smells sweet to those in whose hand it is strong. [ Ouida ]
Conscience is but a word that cowards use. Devised at first to keep the strong in awe. [ William Shakespeare ]
Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence. [ Richter ]
Might but the sense of moral evil be as strong in me as is my delight in external beauty! [ Dr. Arnold ]
Love is strong as death. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it. [ Bible ]
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough. [ Bovee ]
The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt till they are too strong to be broken. [ Johnson ]
The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small. [ Johnson ]
Cheerfulness is just as natural to the heart of a man in strong health as colour to his cheek. [ John Ruskin ]
There is scarcely a crime before me that is not directly or indirectly caused by strong drink. [ Judge Coleridge ]
Strong conceit, like a new principle, carries all easily with it, when yet above common-sense. [ Locke ]
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed. [ Colton ]
It is a powerful sex; they were too strong for the first, the strongest, and the wisest man that was. [ Howell ]
Strong as man and tender as woman, they welcome you in every mood, and never turn from you in distress. [ J. A. Langford ]
Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury. [ E. H. Chapin ]
Resist beginnings: it is too late to employ medicine when the evil has grown strong by inveterate habit. [ Ovid ]
Man's conviction should be strong, and so well timed that worldly advantages may seem to have no share in it. [ Addison ]
Ridicule is a weak weapon when levelled at a strong mind; but common men are cowards, and dread an empty laugh. [ Tupper ]
No two things differ more than hurry and dispatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind; dispatch, of a strong one. [ Caleb C. Colton ]
Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice. [ Abraham Lincoln ]
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. [ E. Budgell ]
Atheism is the result of ignorance and pride, of strong sense and feeble reasons, of good eating and ill living. [ Jeremy Collier ]
When a strong brain is weighed with a true heart, it seems to me like balancing a bubble against a wedge of gold. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]
Amusements to virtue are like breezes of air to the flame - gentle ones will fan it, but strong ones will put it out. [ David Thomas ]
There is in all this cold and hollow world no fount of deep, strong, deathless love, save that within a mother's heart. [ Mrs. Hemans ]
The mob is a monster, with the hands of Briareus, but the head of Polyphemus, - strong to execute, but blind to perceive. [ Colton ]
Stern fate and time will have their victims; and the best die first, leaving the bad still strong, though past their prime. [ Ebenezer Elliott ]
To be strong by nature, to be urged on by the native powers of the mind, and to be inspired by a divine spirit, as it were. [ Cicero ]
Travel gives a character of experience to our knowledge, and brings the figures upon the tablet of memory into strong relief. [ Tuckerman ]
The block of granite, which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, becomes a steppingstone in the pathway of the strong. [ Carlyle ]
Dissimulation is but faint policy, for it asketh a strong wit and a strong heart to know when to tell the truth and to do it. [ Bacon ]
Necessity is a strong rider with sharp spurs, who maketh the sorry jade do that which the strongest horse sometimes will not do. [ Calanus ]
Good poetry has a lot in common with good copy. A poem evokes vivid images and strong emotions through very careful word choice. [ Kathy Kleidermacher, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Copywriter's Words And Phrases ]
The fairest blossoms of pleasantry thrive best where the sun is not strong enough to scorch, nor the soil rank enough to corrupt. [ L'Estrange ]
He that is not handsome at twenty, strong at thirty, wise at forty, rich at fifty, will never be handsome, strong, wise, or rich. [ Proverb ]
Patience alleviates, as impatience augments, pain; thus persons of strong will suffer less than those who give way to irritation. [ Swift ]
Where painting is weakest, - namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, - there music is sublimely strong. [ Mrs. Stowe ]
The truly strong mind, view it as intellect or morality, or under any other aspect, is nowise the mind acquainted with its strength. [ Carlyle ]
Men of strong affections are jealous of their own genius. They fear lest they should be loved for a quality, and not for themselves. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
Love is swift, sincere, pious, pleasant, gentle, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, manly, and never seeking her own. [ Thomas à Kempis ]
Art is based on a strong sentiment of religion, - on a profound and mighty earnestness; hence it is so prone to co-operate with religion. [ Goethe ]
A strong soil that has produced weeds may be made to produce wheat with far less difficulty than it would cost to make it produce nothing. [ Colton ]
Luck is ever waiting for something to turn up. Labour, with keen eyes and strong will, will turn up something. Luck relies on chance, labour on character. [ Cobden ]
Philistine
must have originally meant, in the mind of those who invented the nickname, a strong, dogged, unenlightened opponent of the children of the light. [ Heine ]
Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right using of strength. He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own. [ Ward Beecher ]
Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm. Beauteous soul! when a storm approaches thee, be as fragrant as a sweet-smelling flower. [ Richter ]
Power above powers! O heavenly eloquence! that, with the strong reign of commanding words, dost manage, guide and master the high eminence of men's affections! [ Daniel ]
There is never the body of a man, how strong and stout soever, if it be troubled and inflamed, but will take more harm and offense by wine being poured into it. [ Plutarch ]
Every reader reads himself out of the book that he reads; nay, has he a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with the author's. [ Goethe ]
A weak mind sinks under prosperity as well as under adversity. A strong and deep one has two highest tides, when the moon is at the full, and when there is no moon. [ Hare ]
The truly strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small. I would have a man great in great things, and elegant in little things. [ Johnson ]
The history of woman is the history of the worst form of tyranny the world has ever known: the tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
Though looks and words, by the strong mastery of his practiced will, are overruled, the mounting blood betrays an impulse in its secret spring too deep for his control. [ Southey ]
Everywhere the strong have made the laws and oppressed the weak; and, if they have sometimes consulted the interests of society, they have always forgotten those of humanity. [ Turgot ]
Were not this desire of fame very strong, the difficulty of obtaining it, and the danger of losing it when obtained, would be sufficient to deter a man from so vain a pursuit. [ Addison ]
What we call the heart is a nervous sensation, like shyness, which gradually disappears in society. It is fervent in the nursery, strong in the domestic circle, tumultuous at school. [ Beaconsfield ]
Time, whose millioned accidents creep in betwixt vows, and change decrees of kings, tan sacred beauty, blunt the sharpest intents, divert strong minds to the course of altering things. [ William Shakespeare ]
One (poem) courts the shade; another, not afraid of the critic's keen eye, chooses to be seen in a strong light; the one pleases but once, the other will still please if ten times repeated. [ Horace ]
The strong man is the wise man; the man with the gift of method, of faithfulness, of valour; who has insight into what is what, into what will follow out of what, the eye to see and the hand to do. [ Carlyle ]
Through tattered clothes small vices do appear: robes and furred gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold, and the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks; arm it in rags, a pygmy's straw doth pierce it. [ William Shakespeare ]
All courageous animals are carnivorous, and greater courage is to be expected in a people, such as the English, whose food is strong and hearty, than in the half starved commonalty of other countries. [ Sir W. Temple ]
Over all life broods Poesy, like the calm blue sky with its motherly, rebuking face. She is the great reformer, and where the love of her is strong and healthy, wickedness and wrong cannot long prevail. [ Lowell ]
Rarest of all things on earth is the union in which both, by their contrasts, make harmonious their blending; each supplying the defects of the helpmate, and completing, by fusion, one strong human soul. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. [ Bible ]
The heart will commonly govern the head, and it is certain that any strong passion, set the wrong way, will soon infatuate even the wisest of men, therefore the first part of wisdom is to watch the affections. [ Dr. Waterland ]
Music moves us, and we know not why; we feel the tears, and cannot trace the source. Is it the language of some other state, born of its memory? For what can wake the soul's strong instinct of another world, like music? [ Miss L. E. Landon ]
Love works miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and strengthening the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools; favoring the passions, destroying reason, and, in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy. [ Marguerite de Valois ]
He that aspires to be the head of a party will find it more difficult to please his friends than to perplex his foes. He must often act from false reasons, which are weak, because he dares not avow the true reasons, which are strong. [ Colton ]
If ever you have looked on better days, if ever been where bells have knolled to church, if ever sat at any good man's feast, if ever from your eyelids wiped a tear and know what it is to pity and be pitied, let gentleness my strong enforcement sue. [ William Shakespeare ]
Without some strong motive to the contrary, men united by the pursuit of a clearly defined common aim of irresistible attractiveness naturally coalesce; and since they coalesce naturally, they are clearly right in coalescing and find their advantage in it. [ Matthew Arnold ]
There are few souls who are so vigorously organized as to be able to maintain themselves in the calm of a strong resolve: all honest consciences are capable of the generosity of a day, but almost all succumb the next morning under the effort of the sacrifice. [ George Sand ]
Permanence, perseverance, persistence in spite of hindrances, discouragements, and "impossibilities:" it is this that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak; the civilised burgher from the nomadic savage - the species Man from the genus Ape. [ Carlyle ]
Intellect alone, however exalted, without strong feelings - without even, irritable sensibility - would be only like an immense magazine of powder, if there were no such element as fire in the natural world. It is the heart which is the spring and fountain of all eloquence. [ Lord Erskine ]
Every woman carries in the depths of her soul a mysterious weapon, instinct - that virgin instinct, incorruptible, which requires her neither to learn, to reason, nor to know, which binds the strong will of man, dominates his sovereign reason, and pales our little scientific tapers.
What is our death but a night's sleep? For as through sleep all weariness and faintness pass away and cease, and the powers of the spirit come back again, so that in the morning we arise fresh and strong and joyous; so at the Last Day we shall rise again as if we had only slept a night, and shall be fresh and strong. [ Martin Luther ]
You will find it less easy to uproot faults than to choke them by gaining virtues. Do not think of your faults; still less of others faults. In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong; honor that; rejoice in it ; as you can, try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes. [ Ruskin ]
Luck is ever waiting for something to turn up. Labor, with keen eyes and strong will, will turn up something. Luck lies in bed, and wishes the postman would bring him the news of a legacy. Labor turns out at six o'clock, and with busy pen or ringing hammer lays the foundation of a competence. Luck whines. Labor whistles. Luck relies on chance. Labor on character. [ Cobden ]
A pair of bright eyes with a dozen glances suffice to subdue a man; to enslave him, and inflame; to make him even forget; they dazzle him so that the past becomes straightway dim to him; and he so prizes them that he would give all his life to possess them. What is the fond love of dearest friends compared to his treasure? Is memory as strong as expectancy, fruition as hunger, gratitude as desire? [ Thackeray ]
I have very often lamented and hinted my sorrow, in several speculations, that the art of painting is made so little use of to the improvement of manners. When we consider that it places the action of the person represented in the most agreeable aspect imaginable, - that it does not only express the passion or concern as it sits upon him who is drawn, but has under those features the height of the painter's imagination, - what strong images of virtue and humanity might we not expect would be instilled into the mind from the labors of the pencil! [ Steele ]
True hope is based on energy of character. A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope, because it knows the mutability of human affairs and how slight a circumstance may change the whole course of events. Such a spirit, too, rests upon itself, it is not confined to partial views, or to one particular object. And if at last all should be lost, it has saved itself, its own integrity and worth. Hope awakens courage, while despondency is the last of all evils, it is the abandonment of good, the giving up of the battle of life with dead nothingness. He who can implant courage in the human soul is the best physician. [ Von Knebel (German), Translated by Mrs. Austin ]