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«Trials, temptations, disappointments - all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy.»
Author: James Buckham
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conquering, disappointments, fiber, fibers, fund, funding, helps, hindrance, hindrances, moral character, represents, rightly, strengthen, temptation, temptations, Trials, uses
«To say 'well done' to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge.»
Author: Phillip Brooks
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Power,
Work
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Good Work, strengthen, take hold, take hold of, well-done
«The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.»
Author: Barbara De Angelis
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bodies, connections, fabric, fabrics, hearts, lover, minds, moments, Out of body experience, relationship, souls, strengthen, The Connection
«The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.»
Author: John Milton
(Historian, Poet, Scholar)
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Quotations
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acquaint, acquainting, acquaints, antiquities, antiquity, sayings, strengthen, thereby
«The great end in religious instruction, is not to stamp our minds upon the young, but to stir up their own; not to make them see with our eyes, but to look inquiringly and steadily with their own; not to give them a definite amount of knowledge, but to inspire a fervent love of truth; not to form an outward regularity, but to touch inward springs; not to bind them by ineradicable prejudices to our particular sect or peculiar notions, but to prepare them for impartial, conscientious judging of whatever subjects may be offered to their decision; not to burden memory, but to quicken and strengthen the power of thought.»
Author: William Ellery Channing
(Author, Clergyman)
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conscientious, definite, fervent, impartial, ineradicable, inquiringly, inspire, instruction, inward, judging, notions, offered, outward, peculiar, quicken, quickening, quickens, regularities, regularity, religious instruction, religious sect, religious truth, sect, stamp, steadily, stir, stir up, strengthen, subjects, The Quickening
«The LORD hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend thee; / Send thee help from the sanctuary, and strengthen thee out of Zion; / Remember all thy offerings, and accept thy burnt sacrifice; Selah.»
«Thy tacklings are loosed; they could not well strengthen their mast, they could not spread the sail: then is the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame take the prey.»
«The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness.»
«The beginning of a habit is like an invisible thread, but every time we repeat the act we strengthen the strand, add to it another filament, until it becomes a great cable and binds us irrevocably, thought and act»
Author: Orison Swett Marden
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add to, cable, cables, filament, filaments, irrevocably, strand, strengthen, The Strand, thread
«The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be; all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them.»
Author: Socrates
(Philosopher)
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Honor
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increase, in reality, live with, shortest, strengthen, surest, The Practice
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