Quotes with sinews

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• Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.

  Lord Chesterfield
  English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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• Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.

  Alphonse De Lamartine
  French poet, statesman and historian (1790 - 1869)
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• Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

  George Farquhar
  Irish playwright (1677 - 1707)
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• The sinews of war, a limitless supply of money.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero
  Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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• Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.

  Thomas Fuller
  English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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• Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.

  Albert Schweitzer
  German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• inconsistencies
• character
• limitless
• violence
• efforts
• revenge

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