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He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty helps us to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial.
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All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power of resistance.
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And rest, that strengthens unto virtuous deeds, Is one with Prayer.
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Discipline strengthens the mind so that it becomes impervious to the corroding influence of fear.
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Nothing strengthens the judgement and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.
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The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency, the belief that the here and now is all there is.
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Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of saving himself by hell than by paradise.
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We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.
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Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
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