“The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.”
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“The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.”
“It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late”
“He who did most, shall bear most; the strongest shall stand the most weak”
“I was ever a fighter, so - one fight more, the best and the last!”
“Modesty is to merit, as shades to figures in a picture, giving it strength and beauty”
“Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men”
“The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised”
“I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle”
“Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.”
“A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards”
“Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength”
“Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.”
“Our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but only empties today of its strength”