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Nothing is so strong as gentleness nothing so gentle as real strength.

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Strength,

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Saint Francis de Sales
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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. At this age I should be leading a quiet life.
  • 2. It seems that when you get to a certain age you almost give yourself permission to misbehave and say what you think. People allow it with very old people.
  • 3. The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.

2 Amazing

  • 1. Growing up I looked up to major league baseball players and now these young women have amazing incredible women all across the board from swimming to gymnastics to softball to basketball.
  • 2. I'm not an amazing cook. But I can follow a recipe!
  • 3. My public image is so low-key but I get to travel the world and still have an audience and it's really amazing. I don't take that for granted.

3 Anger

  • 1. If a small thing has the power to make you angry does that not indicate something about your size?
  • 2. A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.
  • 3. Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening May 15 1876 at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.
  • 2. Actually the year anniversary of what you just heard my son Grahame and I are going to be in a play together and I'm acting for the first time in front of an audience that doesn't consist of a high school drama class.
  • 3. So I think you have to marry for the right reasons and marry the right person.

5 Architecture

  • 1. They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.
  • 2. When I'm in London Claridge's is a great favourite. I'm a big fan of art deco architecture and the rooms are extraordinary.
  • 3. I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.
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