Virtue is the strongest shield. [ Motto ]
The strongest proof of repentance
Is the endeavor to atone. [ Miss Braddon ]
The strongest castle, tower, and town,
The golden bullet beats it down. [ Shakespeare ]
Strongest minds
Are often those of whom the noisy world
Hears least. [ Wordsworth ]
Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works. [ William Shakespeare ]
Esteem is the strongest of all sympathies. [ E. de Girardin ]
Against diseases here the strongest fence.
Is the defensive virtue, abstinence. [ Herrick ]
Necessity is the last and strongest weapon. [ Livy ]
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 ]
The strongest passion which I have is honor. [ Bailey ]
Of all the causes that conspire to blind
Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind.
What the weak head with strongest bias rules,
Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools. [ Pope ]
Right is with the strongest in love as in war,
And the woman we love will always be right. [ A. de Musset ]
The reasoning of the strongest is always the best. [ La Fontaine ]
Necessity is the last and the strongest of all weapons. [ Livy ]
Love is strongest in pursuit, friendship in possession. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice. [ George Eliot ]
Lying is the strongest acknowledgment of the force of truth. [ Hazlitt ]
Providence is always on the side of the strongest battalions. [ Napoleon I ]
The strongest arm is impotent to impart momentum to a feather. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]
Patience is the strongest of strong drinks, for it kills the giant Despair. [ Douglas Jerrold ]
Faith is generally strongest in those whose character may be called weakest. [ Mme. de Staël ]
Were one to ask me in which direction I think man strongest, I should say, his capacity to hate. [ Beecher ]
It is a powerful sex; they were too strong for the first, the strongest, and the wisest man that was. [ Howell ]
Love is of all the passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart, and the senses. [ Voltaire ]
Our moral impressions invariably prove strongest in those moments when we are most driven back upon ourselves. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Flints may be melted - we see it daily - but an ungrateful heart cannot; no, not by the strongest and the noblest flame. [ South ]
National hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent in the lowest degree of culture. [ Goethe ]
Necessity is a strong rider with sharp spurs, who maketh the sorry jade do that which the strongest horse sometimes will not do. [ Calanus ]
The strongest love which the human heart has ever felt has been that for its Heavenly Parent. Was it not then constituted for this love? [ W. E. Channing ]
Truth should be strenuous and bold; but the strongest things are not always the noisiest, as any one may see who compares scolding with logic. [ Chapin ]
A beginner should study the raciest, strongest, best spoken speech, and let the printed speech alone. Write straight from the thought, without bothering about the manner. [ William D. Howells, The Art of Authorship, 1891 ]
There are strange coincidences in life: they occur so a propos that the strongest minds are impressed, and ask if that mysterious and inexorable fatality in which the ancients believed, is not really the law that governs the world. [ Alfred Mercier ]
Motives are symptoms of weakness, and supplements for the deficient energy of the living principle, the law within us. Let them then be reserved for those momentous acts and duties in which the strongest and best balanced natures must feel themselves deficient, and where humility no less than prudence prescribes deliberation. [ Coleridge ]