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One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose. -- Jean Anouilh
The glimpses of human strength and frailty that a physician sees are with me still. -- Daniel Nathans
There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation; and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration. -- Lewis Carroll
There seldom is enmity between seasoned old politicians, who know as much as men can of human weakness and human strength. -- Tom Wicker
Everybody wants to make more movies. You see any movie, and it's just a feat of human strength and perseverance. It is a brutally challenging business. -- Jay Chandrasekhar
For pale and trembling anger rushes in With faltering speech, and eyes that wildly stare, Fierce as the tiger, madder than the seas, Desperate and armed with more than human strength. -- John Armstrong
I think these things [firearms] were invented by Satan himself, for they can't be defended against with (ordinary) weapons and fists. All human strength vanishes when confronted with firearms. A man is dead before he sees what's coming. -- Martin Luther
There is an Eye that never sleeps, Beneath the wind of night. There is an ear that never shuts, When sinks the beams of light. There is an Arm that never tires, When human strength gives way. There is a Love that never fails, When earthly loves decay. -- George Matheson
It must not be thought that it is ever possible to reach the interior earth by any perseverance in mining: both because the exterior earth is too thick, in comparison with human strength; and especially because of the intermediate waters, which would gush forth with greater impetus, the deeper the place in which their veins were first opened; and which would drown all miners. -- Rene Descartes
Someone's weaknesses are the strength which allows them to be human. -- M (Michelle) Carithers
Human affinity to human weakness surpasses human affinity to human strength -- Prabhukrishna M
That weakness in human nature which goes by the name of strength. -- Peter Ustinov
Depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. -- Leonardo da Vinci
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A human life gains lustre and strength only when it is polished and tempered. -- Mas Oyama
The human body is robust. It can gather strength when it's in mortal danger. -- Toni Morrison
To be a leader in the Church has always required strength and faith beyond the merely human. -- J. Oswald Sanders
Human beings are like tea-bags. You don't know your own strength until you get into hot water. -- Bruce Laingen
General ideas are no proof of the strength, but rather of the insufficiency of the human intellect. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
Honest unaffected distrust of human abilities under all circumstances is the surest sign of strength of mind. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
The strength of Olympism comes to it from that which is simply human, hence worldwide is its essence. -- Pierre de Coubertin
Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create. -- Maria Montessori
In the make-up of human beings, intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is our true strength. -- Ovid
Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The things you have are a shared effort, Gods blessings and human strength. Give thanks for the blessings in all situations. -- Unarine Ramaru
Fear, the strength of earth's religions, gripping every living soul, Was a monstrous human error for the making of men whole. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
A leader, first and foremost, is human. Only when we have the strength to show our vulnerability can we truly lead. -- Simon Sinek
Both now and for always, I intend to hold fast to my belief in the hidden strength of the human spirit. -- Andrei Sakharov
Sometimes being let down my a human being is the direct cause for you finding your own strength & depending only on Allah. -- Omar Suleiman
The Elders had nothing but contempt for human emotion; they considered it their biggest weakness. Perenelle knew it was humankind's greatest strength. -- Michael Scott
Men are always more inclined to pitch their estimate of the enemy's strength too high than too low, such is human nature. -- Carl von Clausewitz
Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
This human struggle and scramble for office, for a way to live without work, will finally test the strength of our institutions. -- Abraham Lincoln
Enlightened Society is all about nurturing the human spirit - waking up to the goodness, kindness and strength that we already have. -- Sakyong Mipham
In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result. -- James Allen
Four things are destroyed by the other fours: kindness by ingratitude, strength (of government) by crime, power by power and human love by arrogance. -- Khwaja Abdullah Ansari
The most vulnerable and yet most unconquerable of things is human vanity; nay, through being wounded its strength increases and can grow to giant proportions. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
All political and religious systems have their root and their strength in the innate conservatism of the human mind, and its intense fear of autonomy. -- Suzanne La Follette
Only in prayer do we achieve that complete and harmonious assembly of body, mind, and spirit which gives the frail human reed its unshakable strength. -- Alexis Carrel
The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body. -- Thomas Jefferson
To bear all kinds of tortures without a murmur of resentment is not possible for a human being without the strength that comes from God. -- Mahatma Gandhi
To live in love is life's greatest challenge. It requires more sublety, flexibility, sensitivity, understanding, acceptance, tolerance, knowledge and strength than any other human endeavor. -- Leo Buscaglia
There are muscles that we have in our feet that most human beings don't even know that we have. The strength that we have is so detailed. -- Misty Copeland
Even the most powerful human being has a limited sphere of strength. Draw him outside of that sphere and into your own, and his strength will dissipate. -- Morihei Ueshiba
Humility is not weakness; it is the epitome of strength. Humility moves a person away from human, personal weakness and limitation into divine expression, strength, and expansion. -- Donald Curtis
Recover the source of all strength in yourself, and all else will be added to you ... political freedom, the mastery of human thought, the hegemony of the world. -- Sri Aurobindo
Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial, but generally speaking it is its weakness and not its strength that appears in a sick chamber. -- Jane Austen
A person who is severely impaired never knows his hidden sources of strength until he is treated like a normal human being and encouraged to shape his own life. -- Helen Keller
Prayer girds human weakness with divine strength, turns human folly into heavenly wisdom, and gives to troubled mortals the peace of God. We know not what prayer can do. -- Charles Spurgeon
Man seems merely dust postponed: the sublime as an encounter - pleasurable, intoxicating, even - with human weakness in the face of strength, age and size of the universe. -- Alain de Botton

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