Stronger than steel
Is the sword of the spirit;
Swifter than arrows
The life of the truth is;
Greater than anger
Is love, and subdueth. [ Longfellow ]
Fear is stronger than love. [ Proverb ]
Habit is stronger than nature. [ Quintus Curtius Rufus ]
Breed is stronger than pasture. [ George Eliot ]
Nothing is stronger than habit. [ Ovid ]
Hearts are stronger than swords. [ Wendell Phillips ]
Skill is stronger than strength. [ Proverb ]
Necessity is stronger than duty. [ Seneca ]
The stronger the better prepared. [ Motto ]
Intellect is stronger than cannon. [ Theodore Parker ]
Hatred is stronger than friendship. [ Rochefoucauld ]
Necessity is stronger far than art. [ Aeschylus ]
Nothing is stronger than necessity. [ Euripides ]
Noble souls, through dust and heat.
Rise from disaster and defeat
The stronger;
And conscious still of the divine
Within them, lie on earth supine
No longer. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
Friendship is stronger than kindred. [ Publius Syrus ]
Right reason is stronger than force. [ James A. Garfield ]
Virtue's a stronger guard than brass. [ Edmund Waller ]
Good-nature is stronger than tomahawks. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
But noble souls, through dust and heat,
Rise from disaster and defeat
The stronger. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Sifting Of Peter ]
Necessity is stronger than human nature. [ Dionysius ]
Stronger by weakness, wiser men become,
As they draw near to their eternal home. [ Edmund Waller ]
Stronger than thunder's winged force
All-powerful gold can speed its course;
Through watchful guards its passage make,
And loves through solid walls do break. [ Francis ]
Necessity is ever stronger than human law. [ Dionysius ]
There is nothing stronger than human prejudice. [ Wendell Phillips ]
The immortal mind, superior to his fate.
Amid the outrage of external things,
Firm as the solid base of this great world.
Rests on his own foundation. Blow, ye winds!
Ye waves! ye thunders! roll your tempests on!
Shake, ye old pillars of the marble sky!
Till at its orbs and all its worlds of fire
Be loosen'd from their seats; yet still serene,
The unconquer'd mind looks down upon the wreck;
And ever stronger as the storms advance,
Firm through the closing ruin holds his way,
When nature calls him to the destined goal. [ Akenside ]
Chains of gold are stronger than chains of iron. [ Proverb ]
What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted? [ William Shakespeare ]
Friendship, the older it grows, the stronger it is. [ Proverb ]
Love and religion are both stronger than friendship. [ Benjamin Disraeli ]
Ours is the age of thought; hearts are stronger than swords. [ Wendell Phillips ]
Women have fewer vices than men; but they have stronger prejudices. [ Dr. J. V. C. Smith ]
Decency is not defined by statute, but the laws of instinct are stronger. [ Duclos ]
A woman needs a stronger head than her own for counsel - she should marry. [ Calderon ]
Women are never stronger than when they arm themselves with their weakness. [ Mme. du Deffand ]
A woman can be held by no stronger tie than the knowledge that she is loved. [ Mme. de Motteville ]
The soul, by an instinct stronger than reason, ever associates beauty with truth. [ Tuckerman ]
Steam is no stronger now than it was a hundred years ago, but it is put to better use. [ Emerson ]
The use of wine must inevitably be a steppingstone to that of stronger drinks and to intemperance. [ J. C Holbrook, D.D ]
Envy sets the stronger seal on desert; if he have no enemies, I should esteem his fortune most wretched. [ Ben Jonson ]
Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
The heart which truly loves puts not its love aside ... but grows stronger for that which seeks to thwart it. [ Lewis Morris ]
Our passions are like convulsion fits, which make us stronger for the time, but leave us weaker forever after. [ Dean Swift ]
The more accurately we search into the human mind, the stronger traces we everywhere find of His wisdom who made it. [ Burke ]
Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after. [ Pope ]
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can, and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys. [ Lamartine ]
An act by which we make one friend and one enemy is a losing game; because revenge is a much stronger principle than gratitude. [ Colton ]
Hope. It is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective, a lot of hope is dangerous. A spark is fine, as long as it's contained. [ The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins (President Snow) ]
Exact justice is commonly more merciful in the long run than pity, for it tends to foster in men those stronger qualities which make them good citizens. [ Lowell ]
Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating, as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. [ Fuller ]
Thou mayst as well expect to grow stronger by always eating, as wiser by always reading. It is thought and digestion which make books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind. [ Thomas Fuller ]
Ought or Should? Both of these words, though implying obligation, have different shades of meaning. Ought is the stronger term. Thus a man ought to be honest; he should be neat in his dress. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]
A man who has any relish for fine writing either discovers new beauties or receives stronger impressions from the masterly strokes of a great author every time he peruses him; besides that he naturally wears himself into the same manner of speaking and thinking. [ Addison ]
No language can express the power and beauty, and heroism and majesty of a mother's love; it shrinks not where man cowers, and grows stronger where man faints, and over the wastes of worldly fortune sends the radiance of its quenchless fidelity like a star in heaven. [ E. H. Chapin ]
The word necessary
is miserably applied. It disordereth families, and overturneth government, by being so abused. Remember that children and fools want everything because they want judgment to distinguish; and therefore there is no stronger evidence of a crazy understanding than the making too large a catalogue of things necessary. [ Lord Halifax ]
If we wish to know the political and moral condition of a state, we must ask what rank women hold in it; their influence embraces the whole of life; a wife! - a mother! - two magical words, comprising the sweetest source of man's felicity; theirs is a reign of beauty, of love, of reason, - always a reign! a man takes counsel with his wife, he obeys his mother; he obeys her long after she has ceased to live; and the ideas which he has received from her become principles stronger even than his passions. [ Aime Martin ]