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He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity.

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William Samuel Johnson
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Category: Strength

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. How young can you die of old age?
  • 2. A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.
  • 3. If you're extremely painfully frightened of age it shows.

2 Amazing

  • 1. My daughter is in love with Adele. She listens to her every day. To see someone with that much passion and soul move a 9-year-old is amazing and it's magical.
  • 2. I was informed yesterday that there's a Twitter account for my laugh. Very hard to get used to things like that. Pretty amazing.
  • 3. I enjoy looking at words on paper and visualizing how to make them come to life. As a director the creative process is really amazing.

3 Anger

  • 1. All who consult on doubtful matters should be void of hatred friendship anger and pity.
  • 2. Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast or murder thy friend.
  • 3. George wrote Taxman and I played guitar on it. He wrote it in anger at finding out what the taxman did. He had never known before then what could happen to your money.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. My mother and stepfather were married 43 years so I have watched a long marriage. I feel like I had a very good role model for that. And you know it's just a number.
  • 2. Mr. Speaker I rise today to recognize the Peace Corps as it reached its 45th anniversary on March 1 2006.
  • 3. Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight dinner soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays I go Fridays.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Engineering medicine business architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent – not with how things are but with how they might be – in short with design.
  • 2. I studied architecture in New York. So really I was very moved like everyone else to try to contribute something that has that resonance and profundity of it means to all of us.
  • 3. The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.
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