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“We hardly know an instance of the strength and weakness of human nature so striking and so grotesque as the character of this haughty, vigilant, resolute, sagacious blue-stocking, half Mithridates and half Trissotin, bearing up against a world in arms, with an ounce of poison in one pocket and a quire of bad verses in the other.”

“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”

“Adolescence is the time to enlarge the natural sentiments of pity, friendship, and generosity, the time to develop an understanding of human nature and the varieties of human character, the time to gain insight into the strengths and weaknesses of all men and to study the history of mankind.”

“It is weakness, says the Vedanta, which is the cause of all misery in this world. Weakness is the one cause of suffering. We become miserable because we are weak. We lie, steal, kill and commit other crimes, because we are weak. We die because we are weak. Where there is nothing to weaken us, there is no death nor sorrow. We are miserable through delusion. Give up the delusion and the whole thing vanishes.”

“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”

“O, do not pray for easy lives.”

“The weak can never forgive.”

“My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.”

“We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.”

“There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.”

“Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.”

“Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.”

“He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.”