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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.

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Strength,

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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This is just what I have thought when I have seen slaves at work – they seem to go through the motions of labor without putting strength into them. They keep their powers in reserve for their own use at night perhaps.

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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. I feel like a lot of the female relationships I see on TV or in movies are in some way free of the kind of jealousy and anxiety and posturing that has been such a huge part of my female friendships which I hope lessens a little bit with age.
  • 2. I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day and thinks to please by its old graces it is only an object of ridicule.
  • 3. He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I work with all these amazing voice actors that do a kajillion voices.
  • 2. I think having children is the most amazing thing.
  • 3. It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

3 Anger

  • 1. Every child senses with all the horse sense that's in him that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly wondering how awful it might be.
  • 2. Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.
  • 3. Anger may repast with thee for an hour but not repose for a night the continuance of anger is hatred the continuance of hatred turns malice.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse hopefully enduring and intimate to the degree of being sacred.
  • 2. I feel there should have been some recognition of the Spice Girls at this year's 25th anniversary. We flew the flag for Britain around the globe in the 1990s and we achieved a hell of a lot.
  • 3. On this important anniversary we must remember that while we have come a long way in eliminating barriers critical work remains to ensure all Americans can live up to their full potential.

5 Architecture

  • 1. All real education is the architecture of the soul.
  • 2. The job of buildings is to improve human relations: architecture must ease them not make them worse.
  • 3. I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.
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